Show FORESEE APPROACH OF DEATH writer tells of ln instances stances where animals evidently sensed dissolution and feared it I 1 am perplexed at the way in which the lower animals sometimes have a premonition of death and fear lt it while at other times they appear to bo be perfectly indifferent to death I 1 have known a dog to beg not to be taken on a railway journey when U usually ho he used to danco dance about with delight when lie he saw these preparations being made on the occasion on which lie he exhibited distress he slipped off the platform was run over and killed I 1 have known a horse who was a very free juniper jumper refuse obstinately a small fence and when his rider forced him over it the horse broke his back A bullfinch not a pet but merely one of a cageful of birds dropped down screaming I 1 took him out and so long as lie ile lay in my hand he be was quite quiet but he screamed 1 if I 1 attempted to put him back on some cotton wool he lay in my hand or a quarter of an hour and died quite quietly I 1 have had bad a horse refuse to pass under a tree under which he had passed every day for years it was as a perfectly calm day I 1 drove him round the tree and as I 1 did so a big branch fen fell upon exactly tile the spot on which we would have been it if I 1 had not let the horse go round from the continental edition of the london mall mail |