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SACRED BABOONS. 



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Waterton's Experiment An Asylum for Birds and Beasts The 

 Children of the All-Father Hindoo Ethics Queer Proteges 

 Four-handed Demi-Gods The Bhunder Baboon Sacred Croco- 

 diles Eupeptic Pets Sir Emerson Tennent's Statistics Inviolate 

 Carnivora Deva-Ghee Monkey- Hospital High-Caste Apes 

 Strange Bequests Pariah Monkeys The Favorites of Brahm 

 Lunch- Fiends Dangerous Superstitions Captain Elphinstone's 

 Gardener The Lex Talionis Sacred Bulls Their Expensive 

 Privileges Reverend Quadrupeds Fraternity and Equality Dr. 

 Vanjorden's Experience Baboon Asylums Punctual Boarders 

 The Pets of the Dhevadar Cheek A Natural Knapsack The 

 Papio Rhesus Obstreperous Pensioners A Council of War 

 Willy-nilly The Mahakund " Pious and Continent Paupers" 

 Race-Prejudices A Hindoo Legend Ravan and the Rishis 

 The Monkey-Honuman Honuman's Stratagem Unforeseen Re- 

 sults The Sacred Mountain Lake Incontestable Proofs A Val- 

 uable Relic The Spoils of the Virey Inviolate Guests The 

 Saints of Khunar Precautions Impious Britishers " Ludere cum 

 Sacris" Tempting the Saints A Repentant Sinner Plethoric 

 Pensioners Exiled Aristocrats The Victims of the Sepoy Insur- 

 rection Destitute Monkeys City-Monkeys A Four-handed 

 Tramp The Upper Ten No False Modesty Eccentric Mussul- 

 mans Their Hatred of Idols Resolute Mendicants Kleptomania 

 The Delhi Bhunders Race-Instincts A Boy protected by 

 Monkeys The Cause of the Indian Insurrection Interceding for 

 a Pickpocket Dr. Vanjorden's Servant Mons. Duvancel's Mis- 

 take Stuffing a Saint " Wicked Harbarat's Place" A Parthian 

 Shot Mohammedan Allies Shah All urn's Sentence Four-handed 

 Convicts Cemetery Monkeys Dr. Mackenzie's Scrape The 

 Limits of Human Patience A Question of Casuistry Lecturing 

 a Bull Gymnastic Exploits . . . . . . 132 



