Show filial piety of rats hats I 1 wan wall this mot morning a ing in bod bed writes s A german of floer and was reading whon when I 1 was interrupted suddenly by a noise like that which rats make when they climb up the WA waina insect oot or party will wall I 1 watched batche a very attentively and I 1 saw a rat mike make its op appearance cars noo un under a or the side eua of a hole it fooks looked ab about outon on every in bide de and then retired rati reiL soon boon alter it appeared a second time conducting by t the a ear a rat larger than himself an ail 1 thigh appeared to bean be an old ono one claying left it at the bide aide of the holo adother young rat joined the for mor luor one and both together traversed my chamber picking up small email pieces of biscart which hall had fallen from the tha table at sapper time the previous evening they I 1 hey then carried these crumb a to the old one at the side bide of the hole this atter attention tion of the animals aston asto ish edme me I 1 observed them with arefa greater care and came to the that the old rat to which the other t two wo rats rate brought something to eat bat was blind because it did aid not hod find but by toach the biscuit which they keld held out to it I 1 no longer doubted that the two young ones were its children and the abaid assiduous providers for a blind pa par r ont ent I 1 admired ilmy in my mind the wisdom ido T of nature which has planted in all 1 m animals i an intuitive tender tander nosi nesi and a gratitude I 1 might alm almost oat say ay a virtue proportioned proportioned to their faculties too while I 1 was wan making these reflections and ana feared that these little animals might be interrupted our senior surgeon opened the door of my room the two rats rate uttered a cry as if they wanted to give warning of 0 the danger to the blind one and aad notwithstanding their fright they were nero unwilling to save themselves until the old one was in safety lafety they both returned iuta into the hole after their parent serving so to say may as a rear guard |