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SCIENTIFIC RECREATIONS 



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animals of our menagerie led us to undertake others of a very different 

 nature ; I recollect particularly a case of catalepsy produced in a cock. I 

 will describe this remarkable experiment, certainly one of the most curious 

 we ever performed. 



We place a cock on a table of dark colour, rest its beak on the surface, 



where it is firmly held, and with a piece of chalk slowly draw a white line 

 in continuation from the beak, as shown in our engraving. If the crest is 

 thick, it is necessary to draw it back, so that the animal may follow with 

 his eyes the tracing of the line. When the line has reached a length of 

 about two feet the cock has become cataleptic. He is absolutely motionless, 



