CONTENTS. 



The reader is introduced to several persons whom he will frequently 

 meet with in this narrative Doctor Bob and his son Mutual 

 anxieties Leon and Rene ; dissimilar but affectionate The arri- 

 val Black The cottage The new comer promises to completely 

 belie certain unpleasant anticipations 



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Disenchantment What one can do at Villers when there is nothing 

 better A new and peculiar definition of zoology The labora- 

 toryChestnuts without chestnut-trees A new arrangement in 

 teeth An individual with 3,840 feet How to fish for the launce or 

 sand-eel A sea-worm and its mode of breathing Animal plants 

 A very badly educated creature The way one should adopt to grow 

 The four branches of the animal kingdom ..... 



III. 



The beginning of conversion The star-fish A curious invasion A way 

 of eating and a way of running, by no means proper Absorption, 

 and afterwards Numerous posterity Animals that double them- 

 selves by division What may be seen on a shell An aquarium in 

 miniature Fail yland in a glass of water What may be found in 

 oyster-water Uncle Bob himself asks to see Excursion in a new 

 world A fantastic waltz By what means the infinitely small 

 manage to play an infinitely large part A good thing from Michelet 

 The conversion becomes decided . ... 27 



