PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE pleasure of being so read as to require a second 

 edition of our works, is much increased, if we authors 

 can in any way make that edition more worthy of the 

 public than the first. 



I flatter myself that in the present instance I have 

 succeeded, by being able to add two or three anecdotes 

 of much interest, bearing the same stamp of authenti- 

 city as all the rest of the collection. The history of 

 the fire-dog is here ended, and a cat of remarkable 

 sagacity introduced ; the history of bears is also ampli- 

 fied ; and as nothing but the truth has been told, I hope 

 to receive the same kind reception as that which has 

 accompanied the first edition. 



S. L. 



\* The Third Edition of the Anecdotes of the Habits and 

 Instincts of Birds, FisJies, and Reptiles alluded to in the 

 Preface of the First Edition to this Work, may be had 

 uniform with this Volume, with Illustrations by HARRISON 

 WEIR, price 3s. 6d., or gilt edges 4s. 



