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The lioness will perish to preserve that very whelp, whom she will rend a year or two hence, meeting the young lion in the forest; the hen, so careful of her callow brood, will peck at them, and buffet them away, directly they are fully fledged; the cow forgets how much she once loved yonder well-grown heifer; and the terrier-bitch fights for a bit of gristle with her own two-year-old, whom she used to nurse so tenderly, and famished her own bowels to feed.
'Good-b'ye one, good-b'ye all! cried Mark, waving his hat on the top of his walking-stick, as he strode at a quick pace up the little street. 'Hearty chaps them wheelwrights hurrah! Here's the butcher's dog a-coming out of the garden down, old fellow! And Mr Pinch a-going to his organ good-b'ye, sir! And the terrier-bitch from over the way hie, then, lass!
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