271

Sydney Smith.--He drugs his Domestic Animals 273

Horseback, an Absent Clergyman 273

Judge Story and the Names he gave his Horses 274

Short-tailed and Long-tailed Horses at Livery, difference
of Charge 275

ASS AND ZEBRA 276

Coleridge on the Ass 276

Collins and the old Donkey at Odell 276

Gainsborough kept one to Study from 277

Irishman on the Ramsgate Donkeys 278

Douglas Jerrold and the Ass's Foal 278

The Judge and the Barrister 279

Ass that loved Poetry 279

Warren Hastings and the refractory Donkey 279

Northcote, an Angel at an Ass 281

Sydney Smith's Donkey with Jeffrey on his back 281

Sydney Smith on the Sagacity of the Ass 283

Sydney Smith's Deers, how he introduced them into
his Grounds to gratify Visitors 284

Asses' Duty Free 284

Thackeray on Egyptian Donkey 285

Zebra, a Frenchman's _double-entendre_ 287

CAMELS 287

Captain William Peel, R.N., on Camel 287

Captain in Royal Navy measures the progress of the
Ship of the Desert 289

Lord Metcalfe on a Camel when a Boy 290

RED DEER 291

Earl of Dalhousie and the ferocious Stag 291

The French Count and the Stag 293

FALLOW DEER 294

Venison Fat, Reynolds and the Gourmand 294

Goethe on Stag-trench at Frankfort-on-Maine 294

GIRAFFE