CONTENTS 



Preface . . . . . . . . . v 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Cats 1 



Domestic Cats — Cat Worship — The Cat as a 

 type of Back-boned flesh-eating Animals — 

 The Lion— The Tiger— The Leopard. 



CHAPTER 11. 



Dogs 24 



Various Kinds of Dogs — Wolves — The Fox. 



CHAPTER III. 



Bears 37 



Bear-baiting — Bear G-ardens — Badger — Stoat — 

 Weasel — Polecat — Ferret— Otter. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Flesh-Eating Mammals of the Sea ... 69 

 Seals — Whales — Whale-bone Whales — Sperm 

 Whales — Spermaceti — Ambergris — Porpoises 

 — Dolphins. 



