From Henry Jackson   [1873?]¹

p. 123. I should have thought that the tucking in of the tail in dogs was exactly analogous to the adpression of feathers in birds, i.e. that it was not caused by a special desire to withdraw the hind quarters.

In fact I should have thought that a dog tucked in his tail on the same principle on which I pack myself up “on court” during an “off wall bully” at fives.² I find that in that case I cower down and drop both hands in front of me between my legs, so that I make myself as small as possible without disabling myself for future action—

p. 240. Homer, as was to be expected, notices the effect of rage upon the nostrils—³

p. 242. Glisten with fire.

Is glisten right?

I have forgotten my Homer, so I cannot speak positively: but I cannot remember that Homer makes the eyes glisten with rage, and indeed I do not think that the phrase would be right in fact—

In H. I. 104, Homer says “his eyes were like a blazing fire”—⁴

p. 276. The complex nod described by M^r. Scott is exactly the action of some people when they nod to an acquaintance in the street—⁵

p. 285, 286. I fancied that the whew of surprise was produced by an inspiration, the ‘prolonged whistle’ being a conscious imitation of it, which becomes with some people a trick. At the first start of surprise we draw in the breath and say whew: if we are only a little surprised, but wish to make our feeling known, we whistle. Hence when I coached with Shilleto,⁶ he always whistled if I made a blunder. If he had felt strong, sudden, genuine surprise, not mere conventional surprise, he would, I think, have been more likely to say whew.

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could not be an exaggeration of the slight shiver which we were discussing the other day?—)⁷

I should imagine that in such a case as this, nerve force is disengaged for which there is no employment— On subsequent occasions we know better what is wanted, and do not develop superfluous energy. This would explain why when we are ‘nervous’ about anything, some sudden further demand upon our attention relieves us from the uncomfortable feeling and restores our self possession.