Show affection of seal natural affection 01 seals in their wild beato Is well shown in the following anecdote A gentleman living in oregon on the ocean shore one day caught jn a very simple manner a young seal it had been stranded on the plank wharf by a receding tide and left high and uncomfortably dry as well it had not strength to waddle into the water and no one to teach it the tricks of ita tribe tho gentleman kept the little gloskey creature tor several days and then in pity turned tt into its native clement it came to the wharf every night and whimpered so that he was obliged to take it out again and keep it in a small tank the seal giving every alon of affection after the manner of a young dog |