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Quadrupeds. 



range in herds through the deserts of Arabia, and bound 

 from rock to rock with wonderful agility. Their long 

 and slender legs are peculiarly suited to their habits and 

 manners of life, and are, in some of the species, so slen- 

 der and brittle as to snap with a very trifling blow. 

 The Arabs, taking advantage of this circumstance, catch 

 them by throwing sticks at them, "by which their legs 

 are broken. 



THE GAZELLE. (Antilope Dorcas.) 



" The wild Gazelle, on Judah's Lills, 



Exulting yet may bound, 

 And drink from all the living rills 



That gush on holy ground. 

 Its airy step and glorious eye 

 May glance in tameless transport by." BYRON. 



THE Gazelle is the most elegant of antelopes. The Ara- 

 bian poets have applied their choicest epithets to the 

 beauty of this animal, and their descriptions have been 

 adopted into our own poetry. Byron, in speaking of 

 the dark eyes of an eastern beauty, says : 

 " Go look on those of the Gazelle/'^ 



