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Summary:

from the PREFACE:

In making a selection of anecdotes, those have been assembled which were supplied by me to other works, and in most instances have received considerable amplification; others have been given which never before were printedperhaps not even written; while all which have been transferred from other pages to mine have received the stamp of authenticity. Besides those whose names are already mentioned, I have to thank several friends who have drawn from their private stores for my advantage, and thus enabled me to offer much that is perfectly new.

Dry details of science and classification have been laid aside, but a certain order has been kept to avoid confusion; and, although endeavours have been made to throw as much interest as possible over these recorded habits and actions of the brute creation; I love the latter too well to raise a doubt by one word of embellishment, even if I did not abstain from principle.

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATION

MONKEYS, ETC.1

BATS.33

MOLES.41

HEDGEHOGS.47

BEARS.51

BADGERS.66

WEASELS.73

OTTERS.78

DOGS.83

WOLVES.162

FOXES.174

HYNAS.180

LIONS.186

TIGERS.213

LEOPARDS, PANTHERS, ETC.224

CATS.237

SQUIRRELS.250

RATS.254

MICE.266

ELEPHANTS.271

HIPPOPOTAMUS.294

HOGS.297

RHINOCEROSES.307

HORSES.312

THE ASS.333

CAMELS.DROMEDARIES.339

LLAMAS, etc.344

DEER.347

GIRAFFES.354

ANTELOPES.358

GOATS.363

SHEEP.368

OXEN.373