CONTENTS. 



Musical BrutesAfter Dark Night-Terrors Types and Arche- 

 typesOrigin of a Strange Character-Trait The Power of Habit 

 Mill-HorsesSurvival of the Fittest The Influence of Domestica- 

 tion A Conjecture . ' . , . .184 



CHAPTER IX. 



TRAPS. 



Tool-making Animals A First Attempt Monkey-Men The Value 

 of Experience Experts and Amateurs Von Tschudi's Anecdote 

 A Vicuna-Trap Hunter's Secret Race-Foibles How Minks are 

 Trapped Turkey- Pens A Strange Fact Secret Burrows Favor- 

 ite Haunts Ideal Luxuries Cardinal Retz Partridge-Hunters 

 A Fatal Foible Simple Rat-Traps The Nest-hiding Faculty- 

 Persistent Intruders A Rat-proof Building Otter Burrows Fun- 

 loving Animals Unexpected Results A Trapper's Trick Olfac- 

 tory Predilections Strange Preferences De Gustibus, etc. Sewer 

 Studies Rat-Poison A Singular Fact The Language of Signs 

 Profiting by Experience Rats Their Parental Solicitude The 

 Trappers of Singapore Outwitted Monkeys Fuddle-Cakes 

 Dangerous Munificence A Counter-Stratagem In Gloria The 

 Wages of Sin Steel-Traps Ferocious Captives Catching a Wild- 

 Cat Liberty or Death Pitfalls A Daring Trapper In for it 

 American Hindoos The Monkeys of Michoacan A Test of Pa- 

 tience Retribution by Proxy Capuchin-Traps The Trampa 

 Strong Inducements The Inhumanity of Man to Man Tempted 

 Guests A Monkey Patriarch Impulse vs. Principle A Luckless 

 Stranger Panic-Stricken Lord Bacon's Remark The Owl-Trap 

 Biters Bit A Curious Experiment ...... 223 



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 CHAPTER X. 



FOUR-FOOTED PRIZE-FIGHTERS. 



Circus Combats Herbert Spencer's Remark Saxons and Latins 

 An Easy Way to cross the Styx Death in Battle Torres Vedras 



