384 FACTS AND INFERENCES, GRAVE AND GAY. 



David, when they defied the Philistines that were there 

 gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were 

 gone away " Our only other human Dodo belonged to 

 the fair sex, and was the mother of the famous Zoroaster, 

 who flourished in the days of Darius Hystaspes, and 

 brought back the Persians to their ancient fire-worship, 

 from the adoration of the twinkling; stars. The name 

 appears to have been dropped by both families, as if they 

 were somewhat ashamed of it ; and we feel assured that 

 of such of our readers as admit that Zoroaster must have 

 had a mother of some sort, very few really remember now- 

 a-days that her name was Dodo. There were no baptismal 

 registers in those times; or if such existed, they were 

 doubtless consumed in the 'great fire' — a sort of periodi- 

 cal, it may be providential, mode of shortening the record, 

 which seems to occur from time to time in all civilised 

 countries. 



RACES LATELY EXTINGUISHED. 



Several local extinctions of elsewhere existing races 

 arc known to naturalists— such as those of the beaver, the 

 (•<ar, and the wolf, which no longer occur in Great Britain. 

 Their extinction was slow and gradual, and resulted 

 entirely from the inroads which the human race made 

 upon their numbers. The beaver might have carried on 

 business well enough, in his own quiet way, although 



