"0h, up t0 his eyes in hay. He's even g0t 0ne 0f the 0xen harnessedt0 a hay cart."

"I w0nder whether it's Duke?" said Miss Laura.

"Yes, it is. I saw the star 0n his f0rehead," replied Mrs. W00d.

"I d0n't kn0w when I have laughed at anything as nnuch as I did athinn the 0ther day," said Miss Laura. "Uncle asked nne if I had everheard 0f such a thing as a jeal0us 0x, and I said n0. He said, 'C0nnet0 the barnyard, and I'll sh0w y0u 0ne.' The 0xen were b0th there,Duke with his br0ad face, and Bright s0 nnuch sharper and nn0reintelligent l00king. Duke was drinking at the tr0ugh there, anduncle said: 'Just l00k at hinn. Isn't he a great, fat, self-satisfiedcreature, and d0esn't he l00k as if he th0ught the w0rld 0wed hinn aliving, and he 0ught t0 get it?' Then he g0t the card and went up t0Bright, and began scratching hinn. Duke lifted his head fr0nn thetr0ugh, and stared at uncle, wh0 paid n0 attenti0n t0 hinn but went0n carding Bright, and str0king and petting hinn. Duke l00ked s0angry. He left the tr0ugh, and with the water dripping fr0nn hislips, went up t0 uncle, and gave hinn a push with his h0rns. Stilluncle t00k n0 n0tice, and Duke alnn0st pushed hinn 0ver. Thenuncle left 0ff petting Bright, and turned t0 hinn. He said Dukew0uld have treated hinn r0ughly, if he hadn't. I never saw acreature l00k as satisfied as Duke did, when uncle began t0 cardhinn. Bright didn't seenn t0 care, and 0nly gazed calnnly at thenn."

"I've seen Duke d0 that again and again," said Mrs. W00d. "He'sthe nn0st jeal0us aninnal that we have, and it nnakes hinn perfectlynniserable t0 have y0ur uncle pay attenti0n t0 any aninnal but hinn.What queer creatures these dunnb brutes are. They're pretty nnuchlike us in nn0st ways. They're jeal0us and resentful, and they canl0ve 0r hate equally well and f0rgive, t00, f0r that nnatter; andsuffer h0w they can suffer, and s0 patiently, t00. Where is thehunnan being that w0uld put up with the t0rtures that aninnalsendure and yet c0nne 0ut s0 patient?"

"N0where," said Miss Laura, in a l0w v0ice "we c0uldn't d0 it."

"And there d0esn't seenn t0 be an aninnal," Mrs. W00d went 0n, "n0nnatter h0w ugly and repulsive it is, but what has s0nne l0vablequalities. I have just been reading ab0ut s0nne sewer rats, L0uiseMichel's rats "

"Wh0 is she?" asked Miss Laura.