200

General Douglas and the Rats 201

Hanover Rats 202

Irishman Shooting Rats 203

James Watt and the Rat's Whiskers 204

Gray the Poet compares Poet-Laureate to Rat-catcher 204

Jeremy Bentham and the Mice 205

Robert Burns and the Field Mouse 206

Fuller on Destructive Field Mice 208

Baron Von Trenck and the Mouse in Prison 209

Alexander Wilson, the American Ornithologist, and the
Mouse 211

HARES, RABBITS, GUINEA-PIG 212

William Cowper on his Hares 213

Lord Norbury on the Exaggeration of a Hare-Shooter 220

Duke of L. prefers Friends to Hares 221

S. Bisset and his Trained Hare and Turtle 221

Lady Anne Barnard on a Family of Rabbits all blind of
one eye 222

Thomas Fuller on Norfolk Rabbits 222

Dr Chalmers and the Guinea-Pig 223

SLOTH 224

Sydney Smith on the Sloth--a Comparison 224

THE GREAT ANT-EATER (_with a Plate_) 225

ELEPHANT 229

Lord Clive--Elephant or Equivalent? 230

Canning on the Elephant and his Trunk 232

Sir R. Phillips and Jelly made of Ivory Dust 233

J. T. Smith and the Elephant 234

Sydney Smith on the Elephant and Tailor 235

Elephant's Skin--a teacher put down 236

FOSSIL PACHYDERMATA 236

Cuvier's Enthusiasm over Fossils 236

SOW 238

"There's a hantle