Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . lking upright, the body sinks downward, oreven crouches, and is thrown into flexuous movements ;his tail, instead of being held stiff and upright, is low-ered and wagged from side to side; his hair instantly be-comes smooth ; his ears are depressed and drawn back-ward, but not closely to the head: and his lips hang the drawing back of the ears, the eyelids becomeelongated, and the eyes no longer appear round and star-ing. It should be added that the animal is at such times21 300 NAT
Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . lking upright, the body sinks downward, oreven crouches, and is thrown into flexuous movements ;his tail, instead of being held stiff and upright, is low-ered and wagged from side to side; his hair instantly be-comes smooth ; his ears are depressed and drawn back-ward, but not closely to the head: and his lips hang the drawing back of the ears, the eyelids becomeelongated, and the eyes no longer appear round and star-ing. It should be added that the animal is at such times21 300 NATURAL HISTORY READER, in an excited condition of joy, and the nerve-force willbe generated in excess, which naturally leads to actions ofsome kind. 5. Not one of the above movements, so clearly expressiveof affection, is of the least service to the animal. Theyarc explicable, as far as I can see, solely from being in com-plete opposition or antithesis to the attitude and movementswhich, from intelligible causes, are assumed when a dog in-tends to fight, and which, consequently, are expressive of. An Affectionate Dog. anger. It is not a little difficult to represent by picturesaffection in a dog while caressing its master, for the veryessence of the expression lies in the wagging of the tail andin the continuous flexuous movements of the body. -G. I will here give one instance of this antithesis in ex-pression. I formerly possessed a large dog, who, like everyother clog, was much pleased to go out walking. Heshowed his pleasure by trotting gravely before me with highsteps, head much raised, moderately erected ears, and atail carried aloft, but not stiffly. Not far from my house a OUR FOUR-FOOTED COMPANIONS. 301 path branches off to the right, leading to the hot-housewhich I used often to visit for a few moments to look at myexperimental plants. This was always a great disappoint-ment to the clog, as he did not know whether I would con-tinue my walk; and the instantaneous and comp
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