This continued almost daily for a year or two; but at last the boy died, and the dolphin, after waiting day after day for his reappearance, pined away, and was found dead at the usual place of rendezvous.

The affectionate creature was taken out of the lake, and buried beside its friend.[D] "And, on the other hand," added Jack, "if animals sometimes attach themselves to us, we attach ourselves to them.

We are told that Crassus wore mourning for a dead ferret, the death of which grieved him as much as if it had been his own daughter.[E] Augustus crucified one of his slaves, who had roasted and eaten a quail, that had fought and conquered in the circus.[F] Antonia, daughter-in-law of Tiberius, fastened ear-rings to some lampreys that she was passionately fond of."[G] "That, at all events, was attachment in one sense of the word," said Mrs.Wolston.
"Without reference to the dog in particular," continued Jack, "proofs of sagacity in animals are very numerous.

The nautilus, when he wants to take an airing, capsizes his shell, and converts it into a gondola; then he hoists a thin membrane that serves for a sail; two of his arms are resolved into oars, and his tail performs the functions of a rudder.

There are insects ingenious enough to make dwellings for themselves in the body of a leaf as thin as paper.