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Show THE ANIMAL MIND. Wi en an animal nets in obedience to its purely physical needs nnd ac-cordln? ac-cordln? to its anatomical structure, as when ducks take to the water, or hen., sciatch, or hogs root, or woodpeckiiu drill, etc., we do no. credit It with powerb of thought. These aud sltui-l.ir sltui-l.ir things animals no Instinctively. When tho wood-mice got into iy oa' in the other dav aud opened two siii.ill glass jars of butter that had loose tin tops. I did not credit them with anything like human inMlIgenee, becaust to use their paws deftly digging, dig-ging, climbing-, maulpu'atlng is :ia-tuiul :ia-tuiul to mice. I have seen a c'.y munk come iuto a house from his den In the woods and cpen a pns e-br-ard box with groat deftness, and hi-lp himself to the nut? hiFitlo, whlcn, of c.oiirse.ha'smoIloJWo'do not credit cred-it a Llrd 'with rational Intelligence uhon it ruilds its nst. no mattor how j skillfully it mav weave or sew, or how artfully it mav hide if from its one- ' mips It is dolus precisely as its forbears for-bears Imc done for countless g net ft |