CONTENTS. 



XIII. 



PAOB 



The Road to Touques on a fair-day Reptiles An example to be 

 imitated by the market-gardeners of France Doubtful forms A 

 reptile with a strong anatomical resemblance to a bird Birds 

 provided with teeth Uses of reptiles Barometer No. 2 seems 

 likely to be right 170 



XIY. 



A village inn at Touques in the year of grace, 1884 At the fair The 

 g. r . r . r -rand menagerie A trade truly requiring a natural calling- 

 Two anecdotes of tamers 182 



XV. 



Return to the cottage Two or three words about mammalia The 

 stomach of a chewer of the cud A well-applied mythological 

 name Terror of Dame Theresa Disgusting ! but a benefactor 

 Uncle Bob releases a criminal condemned to death . . . .192 



XVI. 



Continuance of bad weather Mother Goose, loto, or dominoes A took 

 of wonders Rotifers Artificial death and revival Tardigrades, 

 Kolpodes, Monads, and Vorticella How to obtain a desired 

 infusorian Mineral, vegetable, or animal? Diatomacese To 

 what the colour of some seas is due Foraminifera Polypes, 

 Hydra Experiments of du Tremblay How a single animal may 

 be made into several, and several into one A naturalist never 

 wearies 211 



XVII. 



With Franceschini Another barometer" Good-day, Major ! "A 

 mysterious voice Uncle Bob begins to fancy the keeper's house 

 must be haunted Jacob A fable of La Fontaine realised The 

 Norman character makes itself evident even in birds Rene's 

 classification Honest men and brigands Day thieves and noc- 

 turnal prowlers The waders and web-feet Climbers Gallina- 

 ceous birds Passerine birds Jacob sadly out of place Frances- 

 chini insists on a new classification 222 



