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identifier	question
37151	Shoot what?
37151	You want to hear how my sports shoot?
37151	What can be more sublime, more entertaining, to the true sportsman than to be left alone with nature in this paradise?
37151	[ Illustration: Off for t''other side Safe ashore What''s that?
29349	Had she dreamed?
29349	I quietly drew close to Philip, and murmured in his ear:"Are you sure it''s the badger?"
29349	What do you say to joining me by the church as soon as you''ve had something to eat?
29349	What was the cause of that angry chatter, loud, prolonged, insistent, in the fir plantation at the bottom of the field?
29349	Whither should he flee?
29816	Are there any facts which render this explanation plausible?
29816	In what has this served him?
29816	Is it impelled by a collector''s instinct less perfect than that of the Bower- bird?
29816	It is possible; but why, it may be asked, this hypothesis, apparently gratuitous, of strokes of the sting given at random?
29816	WHAT TO DO?
29816	What can be the object of this strange custom?
29816	What is the reason of this change, and to what does it correspond?
29816	Why does the bird amass these objects?
31787	And why, since thousands would be proud Of such a favour shown, Am I selected from the crowd, To witness it alone? 31787 Or, sing''st thou rather under force Of some divine command, Commissioned to presage a course Of happier days at hand?
31787	Sing''st thou, sweet Philomel, to me, For that I also long Have practised in the groves like thee, Though not like thee in song? 31787 But how long were we prisoners? 31787 But really, cousin, do n''t you think that this way of contradicting our natures and propensities is very wrong? 31787 Who are they who call usbirds of passage"?
31787	You will be in danger of catching what the gamekeeper threatens, and then where is the great difference between your station and mine?
31787	and pray, what is your letter of advice?
33687	Are you here too, freen?
33687	The firemen''s dog? 33687 What can it be?"
33687	What is it?
33687	''Four?''
33687	''What is the matter, sir?''
33687	''What''s the matter?''
33687	Are these your tricks?
33687	Could his comrades, then, have assisted him?
33687	Had these men any quarrel?
33687	Has he no master?"
33687	How then?
33687	Must we not, from the analogy of the works of God, look to a future state, to find the true end of human existence?
33687	On being asked if he would sell her,''What will you give me?''
33687	The friend who presented it to him said,"Can you not convey him home in your chaise?"
33687	Why so?
33687	he would say;''must I be so unfortunate as to have thee sold to many masters, and not keep thee myself?
33687	said I, softly;''is any thing amiss?''
17185	And the herring, Uncle Thomas; does not it come every year from the Polar seas to spawn on our shores? 17185 But how are the nests eaten, Uncle Thomas?
17185	But, Uncle Thomas, do n''t you think it is very cruel to kill the beaver so? 17185 But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants?
17185	Do they carry the spoil with them when they are thus disturbed, Uncle Thomas?
17185	Good evening, Uncle Thomas? 17185 Is it want of food which makes birds migrate, Uncle Thomas?"
17185	Is the beaver used for food, then, Uncle Thomas?
17185	Of what are they made, Uncle Thomas? 17185 That is enormous, Uncle Thomas?"
17185	Which animals do you mean, Uncle Thomas?
17185	Which is it, Uncle Thomas?
17185	''Four?''
17185	''That depends upon her age; I suppose she is past five?''
17185	189"prehensile tales"for"prehensile tails"190"more about"should read"move about"195"Good evening, Uncle Thomas?"
17185	Are they prepared in any way, or are they fit for use as they are taken down?"
17185	Do you think that they are endowed with reasoning powers, as well as the higher classes of animals, Uncle Thomas?"
17185	Does the lapwing defend its young with as much courage as the hen?"
17185	Is it displayed by any other animal?"
17185	It is in old Pennant''s work; here it is; will you read it to us, John?"
17185	It is of its skin that hats are made-- is it not?"
17185	On being asked if he would sell her,''What will you give me?''
17185	Shall I tell you how the hunters capture them?"
17185	Uncle Thomas, did you ever hear Dr. Good''s account of a very extraordinary instance of sagacity exemplified by his cat?
17185	indeed, Uncle Thomas, do you think that animals understand each other?"
17185	should end with?
44849	But what is habit?
44849	Had he read it: had he assimilated it so thoroughly as to be unconscious of its existence; is this a case of rapid growth of automatism?
44849	In attacking this problem we must ask ourselves, What are the purposes that colouration, and, especially, decoration, can alone subserve?
44849	In other words, How does colour affect the sensibility of its possessor?
44849	Is it any explanation to say a creature performs a given action by habit?
44849	See, it has pitched upon a slender twig, and notice how instinctively( shall we say?)
44849	The wings close, and where is its beauty now?
44849	What country- bred child forgets the strange smell of the city he first visits?
44849	Who, that has seen a peacock spread his glorious plumes like a radiant glory, can doubt its fascination?
44849	Whoever is or can be?
44849	Why are night- blooming flowers white, or pale yellows and pinks, but to render them conspicuous?
44849	Why are so many flowers striped in the direction of the nectary, but to point the painted way to the honey- treasures below?
44849	Why have plants their tinted flowers, but to entice the insects there?
44849	and how does it affect the sense organs of others?
44849	or is it not rather playing with a word which expresses a phenomenon without explaining it?
44849	|?
44849	|?
44422	9--''Will the Unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
44422	Canst thou bind the Unicorn with his band in the furrow?
44422	Could the wing of a bird, covered with feathers, do this?
44422	How could the fondest mother love 100,000 little ones at once?
44422	How have they been produced, and where do they come from?
44422	IS THE UNICORN FABULOUS?
44422	IS THE UNICORN FABULOUS?
44422	If, then, we have a case of chemical boring in these worms, is it not probable that many Molluscs are similarly assisted in their excavations?
44422	In reply to"Who dug his grave?"
44422	Many of the profiles of quadrupeds have only one leg before and one behind: why, then, should they show two horns?
44422	May it not be, asks Mr. Sowerby, that they do not require an entomological bag- net?
44422	Might he not have given the name_ Pengwyn_ to the bird?
44422	Some Bats are said to feed upon fruits: have they the same delicacy of hearing, feeling,& c., as others?
44422	The question being asked,''How can the stylet be procured to satisfy curiosity?''
44422	Were the insect prey of these antediluvian Ant- eaters correspondingly gigantic?
44422	Who, after reading so many instances, can doubt that fish hear?
44422	Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great?
44422	and Caligula himself, who was not worth so much as his horse?
44422	by absorption?
44422	by ciliary currents?
44422	could''st thou be guiltless?
44422	or by rotatory motions?
44422	or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
44422	or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?''
18767	But is the story a true one?
18767	Well, then, Giotto, should you like to come and live with me, and learn how to draw, and paint sheep like this, and horses, and even men?
18767	What,says one of them,"brother, do you make a practice of hanging sheep?"
18767	Whose son are you?
18767	''What do I see?''
18767	And hast thou fixed my doom, kind master, say?
18767	And hast thou fixed my doom, sweet master, say?
18767	And wilt thou kill thy servant, old and poor?
18767	And wilt thou kill thy servant, old and poor?
18767	But what could they do?
18767	But where was the midnight musician?
18767	Did you ever hear of Giotto, the great painter Giotto?
18767	Did you ever hear them say any thing about meeting a single one of the heroes of the frightful stories you have heard?
18767	Did you ever see an old cat preparing to make a spring at a mouse or a bird?
18767	Friend reader, did you ever see the rabbit bounding along through the bushes, when you have been walking in the woods?
18767	His countenance was animated, bearing even an expression of joy; it was evident he had found the child-- but was he dead or alive?
18767	How knowing they must have looked, as they said one to another,"Was n''t that thing managed pretty nicely?"
18767	She was a heroine, was she not?
18767	The biter was bitten that time, was n''t he?
18767	Was not this act of the cat the result of something very nearly related to what we call reason, when exhibited in man?
18767	Well, if it is not the dark, what is it you are afraid of?
18767	What could the poor woman do?
18767	What could we do without the labor of this noble and faithful animal?
18767	What was to be done?
18767	Where shall I begin?
18767	With Rover, my old friend Rover-- my companion and play- fellow, when a little boy?
18767	Would it not be well for some of our fathers and mothers to attend school, a quarter or so, in one of their villages?
18193	But why did one bird stay on the rail? 18193 But why not?"
18193	Doth he not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
18193	How do I know my chicken? 18193 Now what is that fellow doing there?"
18193	What kind of a stick are you, anyway?
18193	Who are you?
18193	_ Tsic a de- e- e- e?_ Do n''t you remember yesterday? 18193 _ Tsic a de- e- e- e?_ Do n''t you remember yesterday?
18193	_ Tsic a dee?_ Did n''t I fool him!
18193	And do they have any means of communicating them, as they sing their love songs?
18193	And do they know coram, and leave- stocks, and prisoners''base, and bull- in- the- ring as well?
18193	And the object of the digging?
18193	Are his eyes bright enough to find it hair by hair where the wind has blown it, down among the leaves?
18193	As it was, who can say what was passing behind that curious, half- puzzled, half- savage gleam in his eyes?
18193	But how did they learn, all at once, of the coming of an enemy whose march is noiseless as the sweep of a shadow?
18193	But what had they done with it?
18193	But what was he doing there?
18193	But where does he get it?
18193	Did some crow fetch his best trinket for the occasion, or was this a special thing for games, and kept by the flock where any crow could get it?
18193	Did the Indians originate this, I wonder, in their direct way of looking at things, almost as simple as the birds''?
18193	Did they find the bright object as they crossed the pasture on the way from Farmer B''s corn- field, and the game so suggest itself?
18193	Did they learn their game from watching us at tag, I wonder?
18193	Do birds have romances?
18193	If you ask the boy there who tells you the law,"Why not a chickadee as well as a sparrow?"
18193	Is not this one of the rare animals in which all the instincts of his kind are lacking?
18193	Listen--"You are surprised?"
18193	Or was the game first suggested, and the talisman brought afterwards?
18193	Or was the idea whispered to some Indian hunter long ago, as he watched Merganser teach her young to dive?
18193	Was it a special privilege of the crow who first found the talisman, or do the crows have some way of counting out for the first leader?
18193	What were his impressions, I wonder, as he sat on a limb of the old apple tree and thought it all over?
18193	Who first was"it,"as children say in games?
18193	[ Illustration] Did you ever meet a fox face to face, surprising him quite as much as yourself?
19850	Do you still eat your enemies?
19850	Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? 19850 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
19850	Again he speaks of"the land of darkness and the shadow of death,"and says:"Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
19850	And why should man define the limit of God''s goodness, His love, care, and attention to the wants and needs of all His creatures?
19850	Are we not all of us fellows and co- workers, partakers of the same universal life, sharing alike a common source and destiny?
19850	But even if this were true, what made them originally follow such a course?
19850	But who is there who does not believe that there is more to a man than that?
19850	By what right does he presume to deny a soul and a continued spiritual existence to lower animals?
19850	For example,"In death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave, who shall give thee thanks?"
19850	How, then, does Susie comprehend those commands unless through her understanding of the meaning of the words in which they are conveyed?"
19850	II ANIMAL MUSICIANS_"Nay, what is Nature''s self, But an endless strife towards Music, euphony, rhyme?
19850	If you agree that we can not treat men like machines, why should we put animals in that class?
19850	In early years, Who thinks, reflects, or even fears?
19850	Merely because we have a superior intellect which enables us to rule and enslave the animals, shall we deny them all intellect and all feeling?
19850	Nothing demonstrates plainer that they have a common language; otherwise, how could they understand that one of their number had been wounded?
19850	Or who could fail to interpret the glee when he has done a noble deed and been praised by his master?
19850	Suppose a wolf or a wild hog could not tell how many dogs were attacking it?
19850	Then why should he not consider the animals as only a little lower than himself?
19850	What more is there for us to learn of Nature''s secrets?
19850	Whence came that most preposterous idea?
19850	Who can be sure that he does n''t know it?
19850	Why should the animal be punished by death, if he has no soul to be forfeited?
19850	Why should we fall into the colossal ignorance and conceit of cataloging every human- like action of animals under the word"instinct"?
19850	Why should we reproach him for his wildwood philosophy?
19850	Why should we show such foolish pride and delusion, and try to baffle one of God''s great facts?
19850	XIV AS THE ALLIES OF MAN_"Who, after this, will dare gainsay That beasts have sense as well as they?
7446	What does it matter?
7446	A long body, wonderfully slim at the waist, bright yellow legs and thorax, and a dark crimson abdomen,--what object can be prettier to look at?
7446	And yet, to one acquainted with these lovers of brief phrases, what more intelligible answer could have been returned?
7446	But how about the larger species, used as food, and which have had a longer and sadder experience of man''s destructive power?
7446	Can it be believed that these late visitors to the Falklands were breeders in Patagonia, and had migrated east to winter in so bleak a region?
7446	Can we not say as much of the horse?
7446	Do they really breed in Patagonia?
7446	Have all young birds a similarly discriminating instinct with regard to their enemies?
7446	How does nature protect the skunk itself from the injurious effects of its potent fluid?
7446	Is the female, then, without an instinct so common r-- has she no sudden fits of irrepressible gladness?
7446	It is plain that these birds have been drawn from over an immense area to one spot; and the question is how have they been drawn?
7446	It was not strange then that when I saw this small bird the question rose to my mind, what kind of nest does it build?
7446	The question then arises, how did this unnecessary fear, so universal in swallows, originate?
7446	The question then arises: Does the wild jungle fowl possess the same pernicious instinct?
7446	They offered me a skin-- what more could I want?
7446	What is the meaning of such an instinct?
7446	Who that has travelled for eighteen days on a dead level in a broiling sun can resist a hill?
7446	Why do these southern birds winter so far south?
40459	As the nest was perfectly full, how could the dam come at her litter respectively, so as to administer a teat to each?
40459	But to proceed: On one occasion, while investigating the nature of some large, transparent, spore- like elliptical cells( fungal?)
40459	But what did the next?
40459	But what way out of the difficulty was found by the clever insects?
40459	Can it be contended that such insects are not able to determine by reasoning powers which is the best way of doing a thing?
40459	Can one believe that no kind of reflection is here necessary?''
40459	Can_ you_ approve of it?''
40459	He adds,''How is it that members of this family have learned that all men, white and black, are fond of honey?
40459	How had the goose learned that the force of the rush was needful to give the hook a sufficient toss?
40459	Must there not have been something akin to the reasoning faculty in the breast of an animal who could thus for ten days carry on such a struggle?
40459	Need I interpret all this for the experienced sportsman?
40459	Next she must reason, by''the logic of feelings''--If a hand can do it, why not a paw?
40459	Now, in this mode of procedure what is the kind of activities which may be regarded as indicative of mind?
40459	The corn, of course, was the attraction, but in what manner did they mark the time?
40459	The question, of course, immediately arises, How is it conceivable that the fact, if it is a fact, can be explained?
40459	To what cause, then, may we attribute the singularities of the cuckoo?
40459	Was Leo suffering from hydrophobia?
40459	Was not this a case of reason and good sense_ overpowering_ natural instinct?
40459	Was not this something more than instinct?
40459	Was she to be a prisoner all day?
40459	Was this reason or instinct?
40459	What could be the matter with the dog?
40459	What did he do?
40459	What was Mori to do?
40459	Why?
40459	Would the animal fly at her throat?
40459	[ 135] The same naturalist says of the alligator, These little incidents show the timidity and cowardice(?
40459	mystacina_?
40459	xix., page 496, says:-- Can we conceive any human being reasoning more correctly than a dog did in the following instance?
1901	After all, what place has the roar of a rifle or the smell of sulphurous powder in the midst of all this blessed peace?
1901	Go hunting with ye? 1901 Got what?"
1901	Guess you''re green-- one o''them city fellers, ai n''t ye, Mister? 1901 Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
1901	Is the spring really coming? 1901 Kinder keep a lookout for my sheep, will ye, Mister, down''t this end o''the pond?"
1901	No room for doubt here,I thought;"Mooween was asleep in this pool, and the kingfisher woke him up-- but why?
1901	There is nothing for them to stand on there; how did they begin that hole?
1901	What means this path, Simmo?
1901	And when I questioned a hunter, he said:"That ol''beech pa''tridge?
1901	Are n''t you ashamed?"
1901	Are-- are you a harbinger?"
1901	But what was this?
1901	But who made a portage here?"
1901	But would the deer live?
1901	Chickadees followed me shyly with their blandishments-- tsic- a- deeee?
1901	Hain''t seen''i m, hev ye?"
1901	I wondered lazily;"and how can they ever raise a brood, with an open door like that for mink and weasel to enter?"
1901	Many questions have come of late with these same letters; chief of which is this: How shall one discover such things for himself?
1901	Mister, what yer follerin?"
1901	She clucked again-- did the ground open?
1901	Still Simmo watched, as if a bear were approaching his bait, till I whispered,"Quiee, Simmo, what is it?"
1901	They live much now in the trees, which they dislike; but with a score of hungry enemies prowling for them day and night, what can a poor grouse do?
1901	What did he think and feel, looking back from his hiding, and what did his loud whistle mean?
1901	What is it?"
1901	What sense of fear brooded here and whispered in the alder leaves and tinkled in the brook?
1901	What was it in the air?
1901	Would he do it?
1901	Would the cur dogs find the yard and exterminate the innocents?
1901	and did he do it on purpose?"
1901	how shall we, too, read the secrets of the Wood Folk?
1901	what you after to- day-- bears?"
1901	would he dare?
8729	200,?
8729	205,?
8729	5?
8729	Are green and red distinguishable?
8729	Are these statements true for the group of one hundred individuals whose distribution among the three classes of whirlers has been given?
8729	Are we therefore to infer that it is less intelligent, that it is less docile, than the cat, the raccoon, or the monkey?
8729	As might have been anticipated(?
8729	At this point we may very fittingly ask, what sense data are necessary for the guidance of the series of acts which constitutes the labyrinth habit?
8729	But what of the interpretation of the results in terms of Weber''s law?
8729	CHAPTER IX THE SENSE OF SIGHT: COLOR VISION Is the dancing mouse able to discriminate colors as we do?
8729	Can a dancer learn a given labyrinth path the more readily because it has previously had experience in another form of labyrinth?
8729	Can a habit be re- acquired with greater facility than it was originally acquired?
8729	Can the dancer distinguish white from black; light gray from dark gray; two grays which are almost of the same brightness?
8729	Can the dancer learn a regular labyrinth path more quickly than an irregular one?
8729	Cyon''s belief raises the interesting question, are the mice normal or abnormal, healthy or pathological?
8729	Does it possess anything which may properly be called color vision?
8729	Does the dancer follow the path by sight, touch, smell, by all, or by no one of them?
8729	Does the dancer transmit to its offspring the tendency to whirl in a definite manner?
8729	Does this law, in any form, hold for the brightness vision of the dancing mouse?
8729	He asks, therefore, does this mean that the males lack a voice or that they are less sensitive than the females?
8729	How shall we answer the question?
8729	If so, what is the nature of its ability in this sense field?
8729	If this were not true, how are the results of Table 16 to be accounted for?
8729	Is re- learning easier than learning?
8729	Is this to be accounted for in terms of inheritance?
8729	The question is, can they, under favorable conditions of illumination, be perceived by the dancer?
8729	The question which I asked was, can the dancer discriminate by means of this difference in visual form?
8729	The question which the experimenter asked in connection with this test really is, Can a dancer learn to go to the white box and thus avoid discomfort?
8729	Therefore we are still confronted with the question, can they see colors?
8729	Was this due to inability to learn so complex a path, or to the fact that the method is not adapted to their nature?
8729	What are we to conclude from this?
8729	What do these records indicate concerning the influence of individually acquired forms of behavior upon the behavior of the race?
8729	What does this mean?
8729	What further evidence is to be had?
8729	What is the role of sight in the dancing mouse?
8729	in Change in Ears Auditory Reactions Litter Behavior Open Appear Disappear 152+ 151 5 13th day 14th day 14th day 16th day 152+ 15l 8(?)
27887	Ai n''t he a beauty?
27887	Could we not save the Buffalo as range- cattle?
27887	Did you never meet a Grizzly or a Mountain Lion?
27887	Do n''t you draw any color line?
27887	Harry, wo n''t you come out and let me take you back to mamma? 27887 If I come in a fur coat, will you treat me?"
27887	Now what_ did_ I catch you for?
27887	Say, bar- keep, who''s to pay?
27887	What is that?
27887	What is the meaning of this?
27887	What the---- is the---- meaning---- of this----?
27887	Where is my gun?
27887	Who owns wild beasts? 27887 ***** And afar in Livingston what did the fur dealer care? 27887 As we neared camp he turned on me suddenly and said:Now, Mr. Seton, what_ is_ the meaning of this?
27887	Could any simpler, smaller pleasure than his be discovered?
27887	Did he take alarm and run?
27887	Do any of you want a F- I- G- H- T----!-!-!?"
27887	Do n''t you see I''ve made Elk medicine and got her hypnotized?
27887	Harry, do n''t you know your mother?
27887	How''ll you swap that quirt for my rifle?"
27887	How?
27887	How?
27887	It was a great prize-- or the banker?
27887	My wife sat up and exclaimed,"Is n''t it glorious?
27887	Now I had him, what was I going to do with him-- kill him?
27887	Now what is the meaning of it?"
27887	Of what use are courage and strength when one can not reach the foe?
27887	THE BADGER THAT RESCUED THE BOY And little Harry, meanwhile, where was he?
27887	THE MOST WONDERFUL FUR IN THE WORLD What is the Silver Fox?
27887	THE POACHER AND THE SILVER FOX How is it that all mankind has a sneaking sympathy with a poacher?
27887	Then I said to my wife,"Have n''t_ you_ got nerve enough to help with this box?
27887	What had he to fear-- he the little lord of all things with the power of smell?
27887	Which is the one?"
27887	Who can tell the crack of a small rifle among the louder cracks of green logs splitting with the fierce frost of a Yellowstone winter''s night?
27887	Who cares?
27887	Who knows?
27887	Who''s your friend?"
27887	Why did he not carry that little gun?
27887	Why did he not realize?
27887	Why should travel- worn, storm- worn travellers wake at each slight, usual sound?
27887	Why this difference?
27887	Why?
27887	Wo n''t you please look this way?"
27887	You see that pile of logs over there?
27887	do n''t you know me?
27887	he got his five hundred, and mother found it easy to accept the Indians''creed:"Who owns wild beasts?
27887	said one of the cowboys,"would n''t a little fresh milk go fine after all that ptomaine we''ve been feeding on?"
27887	what?"
27887	you want to see a real old- time Elk fight?
33434	And what can he find to eat under ground, I should like to know?
33434	And where does this mole live?
33434	Be quiet children, will you?
33434	How could she? 33434 Now what harm can there possibly be in trying to jump on to this keg, I should like to know?"
33434	Well, lad,whispered Harvey,"what dost see now?"
33434	You impertinent young scamp,said he,"what do I care about your tusks, or whether they grow or not?
33434	And do n''t_ you_ lay up any store of provisions for the winter, then?
33434	And how did poor Harvey escape?
33434	And now, my dear kind mistress, will you not fulfil your promise, and give me my liberty?
33434	And so Mrs. Brush is confined, is she?
33434	And what do you live upon, when you_ are_ awake, if it is n''t an unfair question?
33434	And what else have you heard about me, Mr. Greateyes?
33434	But let me see, what were we talking about?
33434	But what are you laughing at, Bill Stacey?
33434	But what do you think Gotobed told me just now, as I came up the tree?
33434	But what has all this about soldiers to do with the poor prisoners in the oak tree?
33434	Did that wild cry of despair reach the ears of the hunters?
33434	Do you believe this?
33434	Do you suppose that Brush and his family spent the whole of the summer in frolicking and feasting?
33434	Do you think everybody is as deaf and as stupid as yourself?
33434	Do you think this book has been written for your_ amusement_ only?
33434	How can a day be passed more pleasantly?
33434	How could I write a tale about animals that could neither speak to each other, nor understand what was spoken to them?
33434	How many has she got?
33434	However, here the rascals are; and what do you think they have been endeavouring to do ever since they came?
33434	I believe you are called Mr. Touchmenot, are you not, Sir?
33434	Let me see, where was I?
33434	Never saw me before, eh?
33434	Now what other tales have you heard about my doings?
33434	So you have heard that ridiculous story, have you?
33434	So_ that''s_ the name they give me, is it?
33434	Tell you about the elephants again?
33434	That I_ think_ is an enemy?
33434	Well, Master Brush, what do you want with me now?
33434	Well, and what harm?
33434	Well, but as I was saying, what do you want with me this evening?
33434	Well, now you have examined me pretty well, who d''ye think I am, eh?
33434	What business has_ he_ got to be flying about now, I wonder?''
33434	What d''ye want?
33434	What do you jump up into the tree for?
33434	What fool told you that?
33434	What has all this nonsense to do with the serious conversation you wished to have with me about the children?"
33434	Who was this adopted stranger?
33434	Will you believe it?
33434	a little addition to your family?
33434	and"whoever saw fruit growing on a beaten path?"
33434	having once seen them how could he possibly mistake their terrible glances?
33434	little fellow, is it only you?
33434	what d''ye stare at?
33434	what d''ye think of that, eh?"
33434	what''s the matter now?
33434	you are in a terrible rage now, are you?
10962	But how will it know,asked Beharilal,"by whose hand its mate died?"
10962	But,pleaded Beharilal,"is there no escape?--if a man goes away by the railway or by water?"
10962	How can a cobra not have a mate?
10962	How many times more true is all this in the case of the moral sense? 10962 The fort is a jungle, and where else should a''bag''take refuge but in a jungle?"
10962	Then what will it do?
10962	Why should I come?
10962	And I said,"Little Bird, what do you know of the coconut?"
10962	And how many confectioners and shop girls are there whose idea is no broader?
10962	And if he did not see these things which were on the surface, what could he know of matters that lie deeper?
10962	And what would he do without them?
10962	And whence did the profits come?
10962	And who can say that there is not a connection between this difference and other developments?
10962	And who shall recount a tithe of its other uses?
10962	And why do they not turn to meet the sounds that come from different quarters?
10962	And why go back so far?
10962	But how about scratching?
10962	But if you must go by wriggling, then what is the use of legs to knock against stems and stones?
10962	But what bearing has all this on the case of birds?
10962	But what four- footed thing can see like a bird?
10962	Does a lyre bird submit to its tail-- wear it under protest, so to speak?
10962	Has it a mate?"
10962	How does the_ Shamrock_ sail?
10962	How is it done?
10962	I have not seen them, and why should I look for them?
10962	If real toddy spirit can not be had, what of that?
10962	If you ask him where the Seth has gone, he replies,"Who knows?"
10962	In a word, why do the people chew betel nut?
10962	In short, what is the true inwardness of a tail?
10962	Is it any wonder that the coconut has become an emblem of fertility and prosperity and all good luck?
10962	Is that not so?"
10962	Nagoo replied with pious simplicity,"How can I tell by what means it knows?
10962	Neptune first struck his trident on the ground( or was it on the waves?
10962	The action was indescribably comical, but what would it have been if her nostrils had been situated among her ribs?
10962	The bird can not rebel, but does it not acquiesce?
10962	Then what did she intend?
10962	To these two occupations the snake- charmer adds that of a medicine man, for who should know the occult potencies of herbs and trees so well as he?
10962	Was the whole race in each of these cases subjugated, or exterminated, and that by uncivilised man with his primitive weapons?
10962	We have pounded its head properly, so it will not return to you,""But what of its mate?"
10962	What choice has a woman as to the style of her hat?
10962	What did these men mean by keeping their own counsel and setting an infernal machine for their enemy?
10962	What is a nose?
10962	What is the bill of a bird and what does it mean?
10962	What is the inwardness of the thing?
10962	What is the meaning of these repulsive instruments, and how does that strange beast catch sparrows?
10962	What place have they filled in the scheme of things?
10962	What should we do without them?
10962	What was their purpose and mission?
10962	What will happen now?"
10962	What would all the boats do that traverse the backwater, or lie at anchor in the bay, or line the sandy beach?
10962	What would be the gain of having higher susceptibilities and keener perceptions if they only aggravated the triumph of the insulting flea?
10962	Wherewith would he bind the rafters of his hut to the beams, or tether the cow, or let down the bucket into the well?
10962	Why does he send for me now?"
10962	Why have the seals hung back?
10962	Why should every schoolboy be taught that Watt was the inventor of the steam engine?
10962	Why should it be recorded that Cadmus invented letters?
10962	Why should we inquire who first made gunpowder and glass?
10962	Why?
10962	[ Illustration: WHO CAN CONSIDER THAT NOSE SERIOUSLY?]
10962	he cried,"for what demerit of mine has this ill- luck befallen me in my old age?
10962	treasures up and the Anglo- Indian hastens to throw away?
6052	And how did it manage all that weaving with its beak only?
6052	And how does the pika survive?
6052	And is not that really about_ all_ that we do know?
6052	And then what?
6052	And what are we to conclude from all the foregoing?
6052	And what does he do to save himself, and insure the survival of the fittest?
6052	And who has not seen the same trait revealed in crowds of boys?
6052	Are they entitled to call chimpanzees, elephants, bears and dogs"lower animals?"
6052	But are they wise, and retiring, like the house- haunting gopher snake of the South?
6052	But did the grizzly cub cower and shrink?
6052	But does the wild jungle- fowl, the ancestor of our domestic chicken, indulge in all those noisy expressions of thought and feeling?
6052	But is it really free from fear?
6052	But what does it all matter on earth, if we keep to the straight path, and rest our faith upon the Great Unseen Power that we call God?
6052	But what is the case with the elephant?
6052	But would they accept it in a grateful spirit, and utilize it?
6052	By what do migrating birds guide their courses high in air on a pitch- dark night,--their busy time for flying?
6052	Can any animal below man be educated in the proper sense of the word?
6052	Can it be possible that any one of them really refuses to concede to the wild animal the possession of a mind, and a working intelligence?
6052	Did he go limping about over the landscape, to attract enemies from afar, and be quickly shot by a man or torn to pieces by wolves?
6052	Did they learn it by observing the ways of man?
6052	Did those little animals collect and place those joints because of their defensive stickers,--with deliberate forethought and intention?
6052	Do I hear any objections?"
6052	Do Snakes Swallow Their Young?
6052	Do Snakes"Charm"Birds?
6052	Do the big sea- lions and the walruses seek to drive away or exterminate the neighboring fur seals or the helpless hair seals?
6052	Do the brown bears and grizzlies of Alaska wage war upon each other, species against species?
6052	Do the moose and caribou of Alaska and Yukon Territory attack the mountain sheep and goats?
6052	Do they"think,"or"reason,"any more than the animals I have named?
6052	Do they, too, know about the mariner''s Southern Cross, and steer by it on starlit nights?
6052	Does any species of giraffe, zebra, antelope or buffalo attack any other species on the same crowded plains of British East Africa?
6052	Does the Indian elephant attack the gaur, the sambar, the axis deer or the muntjac?
6052	From many a palace there stands forth the perpetual question:"_ Why_ did he do it?"
6052	Has the dog learned from man the science of moral banditry, the best methods for the concealment of evidence, and how to dissemble?
6052	How do they know where to go, far into the heart of the South, to find rest, food and security?
6052	How long would it take a man to unravel that nest, wisp by wisp, and resolve it into a loose pile of materials?
6052	IV.--THE BASER PASSIONS XXII FEAR AS A RULING PASSION If we were asked,"Which one may be called the ruling passion of the wild animal?"
6052	If man possesses a soul of lofty stature, why not a soul of lowly stature for the chimpanzee?
6052	If the trainer does not know which are the brightest species of apes, baboons and monkeys, then who does?
6052	If there were not some kind of a hypnotic spell cast over the bird, would it not fly away?
6052	In one case it appears to mean"How do you do?"
6052	Instead of bowling away for two or three miles and getting clear out of the danger zone and hiding in the nearest timber, what do they do?
6052	Is it because you bear a charmed life?
6052	Is it not wonderful-- the mentality of the gray rabbit?
6052	Is it not wonderful?
6052	Is it the duty of the American people to stop all performances by animals?
6052	Is it true that captive animals in zoological parks and gardens are miserable and unhappy, and that all such institutions should be"abolished?"
6052	Is it true that in making animals perform on the stage, or in the circus ring, their rights are wickedly infringed?
6052	Is it true that trained wild animals are cruelly abused in the training, or in compelling them to perform?
6052	Is it wicked to make wild animals, or cats and dogs,_ work_ for a living, as men and women do?
6052	Is there anyone left who still believes the ancient and bizarre legend that mountain sheep rams jump off cliffs and alight upon their horns?
6052	Now, has he anything"on"the performing bear?
6052	Now, have those primitive creatures"immortal souls?"
6052	Now, is it not a wonder that_ any_ rabbits remain alive in Pennsylvania?
6052	Now, what is the truth of this matter?
6052	Now, what were the ideas and emotions of the bear?
6052	Now, why did not all the bears of North America share the fate of the lions and the tigers?
6052	Now_ what_ did it all mean?"
6052	Often is the question asked,"If a grizzly bear and a tiger should fight, which would whip the other?"
6052	Or did it come by heredity, just like walking?
6052	Perhaps the answer is-- instinct; but if so, how was it acquired?
6052	Said the Count to Julia in"The Hunchback,""Dost thou like the picture, dearest?"
6052	Some deer have far too much curiosity, too much desire to know"What is that?"
6052	The most serious question has been: What shall be left out?
6052	The only real question is: how far does their intelligence carry them?
6052	To the question,"Have wild animals souls?"
6052	To what else shall they be attributed than philosophic reasoning on the part of the elephant?
6052	Twice in my life all my traps and poisons have utterly failed, and left me faintly asking:_ Are_ rats possessed of occult powers?
6052	Uncountable pages of controversial letters have been expended upon the question:"Does the puma ever scream, like a woman in distress?"
6052	Very often the question is asked:"Is the African elephant equal in intelligence and training capacity to the Indian species?"
6052	Was it strategy?
6052	Was it the result of quail thought and reason?
6052	What animal will go farthest in daring and defying man, even the man with a gun, in foraging for food?
6052	What animals are the best exponents of animal intelligence?
6052	What are a thousand deer eyes compared with a twelve inch horn thrust through your stomach?
6052	What are you going to do next?"
6052	What did a wild buffalo do when he found himself with a broken leg, and unable to travel, but otherwise sound?
6052	What is the unsolved mystery of your tiny existence in this rough and cruel world?"
6052	What is truth?
6052	What will it do?
6052	When and where do they stop on the way to feed?
6052	When the lion found himself caught, did his capture trouble him?
6052	Who can say?
6052	Who gave to any warm- blooded animal that consumes food and requires shelter the right to live without work?
6052	Who has not seen squirrels at play?
6052	Who taught the oriole how to find and to weave those rare and hard- to- find materials?
6052	Why are those powerful and dangerous apes afraid of that absurd toy?
6052	Why experiment with stupid and nerveless white rats when pack rats are so cheap?
6052	Why is it that the golden plover feels that it is worth while to fly from the arctic coast to Argentina?
6052	Will we ever succeed in outwitting her, and in getting one of her babies alive into a baby incubator?
6052	and"What is it all about?"
42871	''No possum''? 42871 Am I going to have an invite, Uncle Jeth?"
42871	Calamity? 42871 Did you say you would n''t put any price on Calamity, Uncle Jethro?"
42871	Do n''t you sniff the''simmons, Uncle Jeth?
42871	Do you want to know how to shoot a skunk on your kitchen steps and never know it twenty- four hours after?
42871	Going to roast this possum, are n''t you?
42871	Is it Br''er Possum or Br''er Coon, Uncle Jethro?
42871	W''at dat owl say?
42871	W''at dat yo''mumblin'', boy? 42871 W''at yo''''xplodin''my cogitations lak dat fo''?
42871	What are you doing that for, Uncle Jeth?
42871	What fo''? 42871 What is it that makes the_ dreadful_ noise?"
42871	Where did Bobolink disport himself before there were meadows in the North and rice- fields in the South? 42871 Yhear dat?
42871	''no possum''?
42871	''no possum''?
42871	A BUZZARDS''BANQUET Is there anything ugly out of doors?
42871	A hammock for a winter bed?
42871	Ai n''t I done tol''yo''dat dog gwine talk possum by- um- bit?
42871	And if he hates, what need has he of words-- with such a countenance?
42871	And this fearless unconcern?
42871	And what could wake him?
42871	And what one of the birds will not?
42871	And what softest foot can fall without waking the woods?
42871	And what tender emotion has a buzzard too subtle for expression by a croak or hiss?
42871	And whence came their parents, and whither went they?
42871	And who can say he does not prosper-- that he does not roll in fat?
42871	As far as my observation goes, the supreme question with him is, Can this thing be swallowed?
42871	But does she always couple beauty with her utility?
42871	But need one''s love for things English include this pestiferous sparrow?
42871	But no deeper mystery, for--"dead,"did I call these stumps?
42871	But was n''t it beautifully done?
42871	But what about them during the dark?
42871	But what is a wood- pussy?
42871	But what was she calling us for?
42871	Can the ardent, sympathetic lover of nature ever find her unlovely?
42871	Dare he return to us in spring?
42871	Did they detect an odor miles away and follow the scent hither?
42871	Did you ever try to follow this path to its beginning or end, wondering who traveled it?
42871	Dispute the authority of a skunk?
42871	Do we more than barely endure them?
42871	Do we not take the deepest impressions when the plates of these sharpened senses are exposed in the dark?
42871	Do we shiver at them?
42871	Do you think they''ll walk up and toe that mark, while you knock''em over with a stick?"
42871	Does any one believe that exhibition to be an explosion of pure song-- the exaltation of unmixed joy?
42871	Does this winter- long sleep seem to him only as a nap overnight?
42871	For did not their motive justify the deed?
42871	Gwine ax yo''self a''invite?
42871	Had I gone daft so suddenly?
42871	Has anybody observed the feat?
42871	He rolls in fat; and how long has obesity been the peculiar accompaniment of nervousness?
42871	How could our imaginations, with a bent for superstition, fail to work upon a creature so often heard, so rarely seen, of habits so dark and uncanny?
42871	How did the bird from that altitude discover so tiny a thing?
42871	How did they find their way to this wet spot over the hills and across the acres of this wide pasture?
42871	How does it taste?
42871	How long before Columbus, and Leif, son of Eric?
42871	How we gwine yhear w''at dat dog say?"
42871	How would the casuist decide for so sweet, so big, so heroic a deception-- or the attempt?
42871	How, again, shall I explain this bit of observation?
42871	If it tried, say, the tanager''s, would we believe and accept it?
42871	If these were the fragments only, what would be a conservative estimate of the night''s entire catch?
42871	Is he listening to the chorus of the crickets, to the whippoorwills, or is it for supper he is planning?
42871	Is it astonishing that, when finished, they looked like a growth of the limb, like part and parcel of the very tree?
42871	Is it curiosity to see what goes on?
42871	Is it mere stupidity?
42871	Is there anything on record in the way of audacity better than that?
42871	Is there anything snug and warm about a hammock?
42871	Is there some safety here from enemies worse than boys and cats and dogs?
42871	Is this an epileptic, an unstrung, flighty creature?
42871	Is this nervousness?
42871	Long before the sun- baked mud began to crack these young ones had gone-- where?
42871	Meantime where and how do they live?
42871	Most things are curious, ai n''t they?"
42871	Or is it now instinctive?
42871	Or is it that these birds take this chance for human fellowship?
42871	Or who can keep his flesh from creeping when an owl bobs over him in the silence against a full moon?
42871	Possum, boy?
42871	Possum?
42871	Sell C''lamity?
42871	Shall the crows and cherry- birds be exterminated?
42871	Shall we measure all the out- of- doors by the linnet''s song, the cardinal- flower''s flame, and the hay- field''s odor?
42871	Still, why not raise skunks?
42871	Such thoughts as, What is it?
42871	Suppose they hunted only two evening hours a day?
42871	The cars drive High- hole away?
42871	The chickadees were never friendlier; and when, since last autumn, have so many flocks of goldfinches glittered along our paths?
42871	The lark that broke from the snow at my feet as I crossed the pasture this afternoon-- What comes o''thee?
42871	The possum was one of the first to find us, and when did he land, I wonder?
42871	They are more easily kept than pigs or pigeons; they multiply rapidly; their pelts make good(?)
42871	They go somewhere from the dew and cold; but where?
42871	W''at I done tol''yo''''bout dis?
42871	W''at I know''bout any possum?
42871	W''at dat ol''fool dog tree a long- legged possum fo'', nohow?
42871	W''at dat yo''sayin''''g''in''C''lamity?
42871	W''at dem''flections''g''in''ol''Miss Owl?
42871	W''at yo''''sociatin''wid a low- down possum as takes t''mus''rats''holes?
42871	W''at yo''mean?"
42871	Was he the same lithe, merry- hearted beau then as now?"
42871	Was it a summons from--?
42871	Was it an ancient tortoise in the garden?
42871	Waves of herring, did I say?
42871	We see them sprinkled over the snow everywhere; but when have we seen the feet that left them?
42871	Whar wilt thou cow''r thy chittering wing, An''close thy e''e?
42871	What I take yo''possumin''des dozen winters fo'', en yo''dunno how to sight a gun in de moon yit?
42871	What about the snakes and frogs?
42871	What did it signify-- these squawking, scolding, garrulous birds suddenly gone silent and trustful?
42871	What does he think about?
42871	What four boys in the same time could clear the meadows of half that number?
42871	What other bird can take his place and fill his mission in the heavy, hopeful days of March?
42871	What other bird lines his nest with snake- skins?
42871	What then?
42871	What would the coons, the turkey- buzzards, and the owls do without them?
42871	What, indeed, looks less lovely, less nimble and buoyant, more chained to the earth, than a toad?
42871	What, then, is it-- stupidity or insolence?
42871	When on wing, where else, between the point of a beak and the tips of a tail, are there so many marvelous curves, such beautiful balance of parts?
42871	When will they return?
42871	When, in the highest noon, did every leaf, every breeze, seem so much a self, so full of ready life?
42871	Where are any to match them for curious, crazy coloring?
42871	Where did they all come from?
42871	Where do the birds sleep such nights as this?
42871	Where do they pass the long winter nights?
42871	Where do they spend their night?
42871	Where in this bitter cold, this darkness and storm, will they make their beds?
42871	Who can get used to the bats flitting and squeaking about him in the dusk?
42871	Who ever had a good look at a muskrat in the glare of day?
42871	Who has ever heard any noise from untamed animals at play?
42871	Who knows?
42871	Why do the wood- birds so persistently build their nests along the paths and roads?
42871	Why give the wide sea surface to the petrels, and screw the sea- urchins into the rocks on Grand Manan?
42871	Why leave an entire forest of green, live pines for a lonesome crow hermitage, and convert the rottenest old stump into a submerged- tenth tenement?
42871	Why should she be so lavish of interstellar space, and crowd a drop of stagnant water so?
42871	Why, did n''t you tell her to go home?"
42871	Will it digest?
42871	Will some one please explain?
42871	Will they get out?
42871	Yes; here I sit,--a man on a fence across the field,--and the lark turns toward me and calls out:"Did you see me?"
42871	You can take no vacation in the mountains?
42871	[ Illustration] Has anything been written about our swift showing as faithful and sympathetic observation as that?
42871	a brood of birds in the chimney?
42871	and can he ever sing again?
42871	or hangs such gruesome things out for latch- strings?
42871	spring!_ Has he not as much claim upon our faith as a bird that drops down from no one knows where, with the same message?
42871	the owls and hawks put behind bars?
42871	the sheep upon the downs?
42871	the sparrows transported?
42871	this new and absorbing interest in grubs?
30249	Surely,said a woman to me,"when a cat sits watching at a mouse- hole, she has some image in her mind of the mouse in its hole?"
30249	A red squirrel will chip up green apples and pears for the seeds at the core: can he know, on general principles, that these fruits contain seeds?
30249	Am I guilty, then, as has been charged, of preferring the deductive method of reasoning to the more modern and more scientific inductive method?
30249	Because man, then, is half animal, shall we say that the animal is half man?
30249	Behold the tumble- bug with her ball of dung by the roadside; where is she going with it?
30249	Bring it to the hermit for his breakfast?
30249	But I shall have more to say upon this point in another chapter, entitled"What do Animals Know?"
30249	But do you suppose the fond creature ever comes to know why you do not want his feet upon you?
30249	But how did they know of the destruction of their young, and how can we account for their concerted action?
30249	But if the two hawks look alike, would not the birds come to regard them both as bird- eaters, since one of them does eat birds?
30249	But if we mean by interpretation an answer to the inquiry,"What does this scene or incident suggest to you?
30249	But would she not root if she had no pigs, and would not the pigs root if they had no mother?
30249	Can it meet new conditions?
30249	Can it solve a new problem?
30249	Can we believe that the hermit crab thinks and reasons?
30249	Can we find any other word for his act?
30249	Could any person who knows the birds credit such a tale?
30249	DO ANIMALS THINK AND REFLECT?
30249	Did it reflect and say, Now is the time for me to bend down and thrust my tip into the ground?
30249	Did its parent not try to teach it?
30249	Did not its act imply something more than instinct?
30249	Did she hear it gnawing the roots of the grasses, or did she see a movement in the turf beneath which the grub was at work?
30249	Did she make up her mind?
30249	Did she think, compare, weigh?
30249	Did the drouth destroy all their eggs and young, and did they know this and so come back to try again?
30249	Did the raspberry bush think, or choose what it should do?
30249	Did the wife tell him, or the husband?
30249	Did they receive any parental instruction?
30249	Do they know winter is coming?
30249	Do we draw the right inference?
30249	Do we get at the true meaning of the facts?
30249	Do we mean the communication of knowledge, or the communication of emotion?
30249	Do you think the germs from the first knot knew where to find the other plum trees?
30249	Does he ring true?
30249	Does he see out of the back of his head?--that is, does he see on more than one side of a thing?
30249	Does it ever take to the fields and woods, and live on fruit and land- insects, and nest in trees like other thrushes?
30249	Does man know his proper food in the same way?
30249	Does not even an old trout know more about hooks than a young one?
30249	Does not man wink, and dodge, and sneeze, and laugh, and cry, and blush, and fall in love, and do many other things without thought or will?
30249	Does not solitude bring out a man''s peculiarities and differentiate him from others?
30249	Does not some clue to them reach his senses?
30249	Flying and walking are both modes of locomotion, and yet may we not fairly say they differ in kind?
30249	Has a cat ever been known to bait a rat with a piece of cheese?
30249	Has he not been struck by the thought,"I do not know which way my master is going: I will wait and see"?
30249	How could a crow tell his fellows of some future event, or of some experience of the day?
30249	How could a fox or a wolf instruct its young in such matters as traps?
30249	How could an animal know that a man will protect it on special occasions, when ordinarily it has exactly the opposite feeling?
30249	How could he tell him this thing is dangerous, this is harmless, save by his actions in the presence of those things?
30249	How could she make so fine and far- seeing a judgment, wholly out of the range of brute affairs, and so purely philosophical and humanly ethical?
30249	How could the bird obtain this knowledge?
30249	How could the bird with its beak tear out a broad piece of paper?
30249	How could the crow gain the knowledge or the experience which this trick implies?
30249	How could the mare have known her companion was blind?
30249	How could they do it?
30249	How did she acquire all this knowledge?
30249	How did she know where to drill?
30249	How did they know we had had a beech- nut year?
30249	How does every individual come to share in the common purpose?
30249	How does he know which is the thinnest side?
30249	How else shall one explain their second appearance in the marshes?
30249	How it arose, what its genesis was, who can tell?
30249	How should it know that there are such things as crabs?
30249	How should it know that they can be taken with bait and line or by fishing for them?
30249	How would the mother duck get her young up out of that well and down to the ground?
30249	I am quite positive that mice will try to pull one of their fellows out of a trap, but what the motive is, who shall say?
30249	I have taken persons to hear the hermit thrush, and I have fancied that they were all the time saying to themselves,"Is that all?"
30249	IX DO ANIMALS THINK AND REFLECT?
30249	If a fox would bait poultry with corn, why should he not, in his wild state, bait mice and squirrels with nuts and seeds?
30249	If natural selection has developed and sharpened the claws of the cat and the scent of the fox, why should it not develop and sharpen their wits also?
30249	If nature study is only to exploit your own individuality, why bother about what other people have or have not seen or heard?
30249	If not, where were they?
30249	If so, how did they communicate the intelligence and set the whole mighty army in motion?
30249	If so, how does it differ from free intelligence or judgment?
30249	If the dog in such cases does not reflect, what does he do?
30249	In fact, that they would die as soon in the air as in the fresh water?
30249	Indeed, what is there about the wood thrush that is not pleasing?
30249	Is a change of habits to meet new conditions, or the taking advantage of accidental circumstances, an evidence of sense?
30249	Is he in love with the truth, or with the strange, the bizarre?
30249	Is his eye single?
30249	Is instinct resourceful?
30249	Is it a real fit?
30249	Is it because his foot would leave a scent that would give his secret away, while his nose does not?
30249	Is it equally true that the high color of most fruits is to attract some hungry creature to come and eat them and thus scatter the seeds?
30249	Is it fear?
30249	Is it himself, then, and not the truth that he is seeking to exploit?
30249	Is it not the same in a degree among men?
30249	Is it probable that a mere animal reflects upon the future any more than it does upon the past?
30249	Is it solicitous about the future well- being of its offspring any more than it is curious about its ancestry?
30249	Is she thinking about it?
30249	Is there any other animal that would act as the collie did under like circumstances?
30249	Is there anything which, without great violence to language, may be called a school of the woods?
30249	Is this act the result of knowledge or of experience?
30249	It is not afraid of the skin itself; why should it infer that squirrels, for instance, are?
30249	Many of the shells upon the beach are very showy; to what end?
30249	Many of the toadstools are highly colored also; how do they profit by it?
30249	May it not be because the wasps are solitary?
30249	Newspaper reading tends to make one cautious-- and who does not read newspapers in these days?
30249	Now am I to accept this story without question because I find it printed in a book?
30249	Now, can the action of the plover in this case be explained on the theory of instinct alone?
30249	Now, how did the fox know that the trap was sprung and was now harmless?
30249	Now, if by interpretation we mean an answer to the question,"What does this mean?"
30249	Now, what is the interpretation?
30249	Or how tell of a newly found food supply save by flying eagerly to it?
30249	Or were these restless spirits unable to fold their wings even in sleep?
30249	Poisonous fruits are also highly colored; to what end?
30249	Reason and instinct are both manifestations of intelligence, yet do they not belong to different planes?
30249	Reason heeds the points of the compass and takes note of the topography of the country, but what can animals know of these things?
30249	Shall we deny anything to a bird or beast that makes it more interesting, and more worthy of our study and admiration?
30249	Shall we say these horses deliberately committed suicide?
30249	That birds and beasts do communicate with each other, who can doubt?
30249	That lusty_ caw- aw, caw- aw_ that one hears in spring and summer, like the voice of authority or command, what does it mean?
30249	The bird had learned to be unafraid in the cage, and why should it be afraid out of the cage?
30249	The hickory nut is almost white; why does it not seek concealment also?
30249	The puzzle is, how did this masterly observer know that this state of affairs existed between this couple?
30249	The songless birds-- why has Nature denied them this gift?
30249	The sparrow''s song meant nothing to her at all, and how could she share the enthusiasm of the poet?
30249	The ways of nature,--who can map them, or fathom them, or interpret them, or do much more than read a hint correctly here and there?
30249	They are mostly down, and why should they not fall without any danger to life or limb?
30249	They could not carry it with their feet, and how could they manage it with their beaks?
30249	This may be all right in fiction or romance or fable, but why call the outcome natural history?
30249	This moth feeds upon the nectar of flowers like the hummingbird, and why should it not have the hummingbird''s form and manner?
30249	Unless the seed itself is digested, what is there to tempt the bird to devour it, or to reward it for so doing?
30249	V FACTORS IN ANIMAL LIFE The question that the Californian schoolchildren put to me,"Have the birds got sense?"
30249	VIII WHAT DO ANIMALS KNOW?
30249	WHAT DO ANIMALS KNOW?
30249	Was he indeed hearing the bird of his youth?
30249	Was the act an act of judgment, or simply an unreasoning impulse, like so much else in the lives of the wild creatures?
30249	Was the press of birds so great that they needed to keep their wings moving to ventilate the shaft, as do certain of the bees in a crowded hive?
30249	Was the spot agreed upon beforehand and notice served upon all the members of the tribe?
30249	Was this of itself an act of intelligence?
30249	What benefit to the tree, directly or indirectly, is all this wealth of color of the autumn?
30249	What can a calf or a cow know about sharpened nails, and the use of a rock to dull them?
30249	What can be more unsuitable, untractable, for a nest in a hole or cavity than the twigs the house wren uses?
30249	What could any horse know about such a disability?
30249	What do Ruskin''s writings upon nature interpret?
30249	What does he know about maple trees and the spring flow of sap?
30249	What does it all mean?
30249	What does it mean?
30249	What does or can a horse know about death, or about self- destruction?
30249	What experience has the race of orioles had with cloth, that any member of it should know how to unravel it in that way?
30249	What is the meaning of the fossils in the rocks?
30249	What should he do now?
30249	What their various calls mean, who shall tell?
30249	What was she going to do with the egg?
30249	What was the meaning of it?
30249	What were they saying?
30249	When a fowl eats gravel or sand, is it probable that the fowl knows what the practice is for, or has any notion at all about the matter?
30249	When and how did it get this experience?
30249	When this happens, does the tree start a new bud and then develop a new shoot to take the place of the lost leader?
30249	Where was her experience of its supposed truth obtained?
30249	Wherefore, then, are they so brightly colored?
30249	Who ever saw a trained animal, unless it be the elephant, do anything that betrayed the least spark of conscious intelligence?
30249	Who ever saw any of our common birds display any sense or judgment in the handling of strings?
30249	Who knows?
30249	Who would have him more human or less canine?
30249	Why are robins so abundant?
30249	Why are these parasitical birds found the world over?
30249	Why does not the fox take a stick and spring the trap he is so afraid of?
30249	Why does the cowbird lay its egg in another bird''s nest?
30249	Why does the dog, the world over, use his nose in covering the bone he is hiding, and not his paw?
30249	Why does the wild flower, as we chance upon it in the woods or bogs, give us more pleasure than the more elaborate flower of the garden or lawn?
30249	Why is corn so bright colored, and wheat and barley so dull, and rice so white?
30249	Why is the Canada jay so much tamer than are other jays?
30249	Why is the Canada jay so tame and familiar about your camp in the northern woods or in the Rockies, and the other jays so wary?
30249	Why is the fox so cunning?
30249	Why is the porcupine so tame and stupid?
30249	Why is the spruce grouse so stupid compared with most other species?
30249	Why not sit in your study and invent your facts to suit your fancyings?
30249	Why set it down as a record of actual observation?
30249	Why should he not?
30249	Why should not Nature repeat herself in this way?
30249	Why should the crow be afraid of a gun, if it had learned not to be afraid of the gunner?
30249	Why, in fact, go to the woods at all?
30249	Why, then, has not this resemblance been brought about?
30249	Why, then, should it not take on these alluring colors to help along this end?
30249	Why?
30249	Why?
30249	Will her failure in this case cause her to lose faith in the protective influence of the shadow of a human dwelling?
30249	With one on each side, how could they fly with the nest between them?
30249	Wolves reared with dogs learn to bark, and who has not seen a dog draw its face as if trying to laugh as its master does?
30249	Would not any serious student of nature in our day know in advance of experiment that all this was childish and absurd?
30249	Would the same mice share their last crumb with their fellow if he were starving?
30249	Would they not at once identify the harmless one with their real enemy and thus fear them both alike?
30249	_ Have_ the birds and our other wild neighbors sense, as distinguished from instinct?
30249	how do you feel about it?"
30249	or of a thousand and one other things in the organic and inorganic world about us?
30249	or of the carving and sculpturing of the landscape?
30249	or,"What is the exact truth about it?"
30249	that little squeaky thing?"
30249	then, how could it weave it into the wires of its cage?