CHAPTER VL 



On Quadrttpeds, 



AS it is often impossible to convey home the 

 quadrupeds a traveller may meet with in visit- 

 ing foreign lands, it becomes necessary to take 

 off and preserve their skins ; many of which, es- 

 pecially those from newly discovered countries, 

 interest us extremely, either by their beauty or 

 their novelty. 



There are few who have not seen a poulterer 

 take the skin from a rabbit, or a butcher perform 

 the same operation on a sheep or ox : a lesson 

 from either of these persons would be of use to 

 tlie traveller. In taking the skin from large or 



