ned. D---- happening at the moment to be very
busy, endeavored to get rid of his visiter, and contrived various
expedients for that purpose. But JONES was not in a mood to be trifled
with. 'I came, 'Squire,' said he, 'to get your opinion in writing on this
case, and I will have it before I leave the room, if I sit here till the
day of judgment!' The lawyer looked upon his visiter, while a thought of
forcible ejectment passed through his brain; but the glaring eye and stout
athletic frame which met his gaze, told him that such a course would be
extremely hazardous. At length the dinner-bell rang. A bright thought
struck him; and putting on his coat and hat, he took JONES gently by the
arm: 'Come,' said he, 'go and dine with me.' 'No!' said the latter,
fiercely; 'I'll never dine again until I get what I came for.' The lawyer
was in a quandary, and at length, in very despair, he consented to forego
his dinner and give his annoyer the desired opinion. 'Well, well, JONES,'
said he, soothingly, 'you shall have it;' and gathering pens, ink and
paper, he was soon seated at the table, while JONES, creeping on tiptoe
across the room, stood peeping over his shoulder. The lawyer commenced:
'My oppinion in the case----' 'Humph!' said the lunatic, suddenly seizing
his hat, and turning on his heel, '_I wouldn't give a d--n for your
opinion with two p's!_' . . . MANY of our public as well as private
correspondents seem to have been not a little interested in the articles
on _Mind and Instinct_, in late numbers of this Magazine. A valued friend
writing from Maryland, observes: 'The collection of facts by your
contributor is very industrious, their array quite skilful, and the
argument very strong. I think, however, that if I had time I could pick
several flaws in the reasoning, or rather erect a very good
counter-argument, founded principally upon the fact that the intelligence
of animals is generally as great in early youth as it is in the prime of
their beasthood. The author might have added to his list of facts, an
account which I read when a boy, of the practice of the baboons in
Caffraria, near the orange-orchards. They arrange themselves in a row from
their dens to the orange-trees. One then ascends the tree, plucks the
oranges, and throws them to the next baboon, and he to the next, and so on
throughout the whole file; they standing some fifty yards apart. In this
manner they quickly strip a tree, and at the same time are safe from