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Thieves Incurable Kleptomaniacs Mr. Thielman's Cook Mis- 

 placed Confidence Monkey Education A School for Pickpockets 

 Unnatural Mothers Living by Stealth Nest-hiding A Queer 

 Predilection Buddha's Foibles A Moral Experiment Martyrs to 

 Free Inquiry Taciturn Monkeys The Rhesus Baboon An Ob- 

 scene Saint Four-handed Drunkards The Force of a Bad Ex- 

 ample Is our Love of Salt Natural? Original Sin Eating on 

 Principle Fruges Consumere Nati Lung-Poison A Curious 

 Experiment What Kills our Menagerie Monkeys A Physiologi- 

 cal Puzzle Anthropoid Monkeys Their Antipathy to Children 

 Paradoxical Character-Traits The Monkeys of New Freiburg 

 Over-practical Jokes Fatal Consequences The Victim of the 

 Wanderoos Vicarious Atonement The Faculty of Dissimulation. 21 



CHAPTER II. 



MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 



By-Laws of Nature Man and his Fellow- Creatures Solution of a 

 Zoological Mystery Survival under Difficulties The Haunts of 

 the Mountain Sheep Grazing Cimarrons Picket- Posts Retreat- 

 Tactics Adventure of an American Engineer A Camp of Obser- 

 vation The Progress of Culture Four-footed Emigrants Colonel 

 Pennypacker's Recollections Our Last Hunting-Grounds The 

 Guests of the Northland Winter-Horrors A Strange Honeymoon 

 Elder Millard's Discovery Protective Instincts An Ill-fated 

 Rookery The Gamekeeper of Rheinharts-Brunn Hibernation 

 Biornir-Nott Weather- Prophets A Storm-Signal Highland 

 Camps Zoological Nondescripts Perplexities of a Modern Na- 

 turalist Untamable Kids A Dangerous Pet Don Panchito 

 Intemperate Quadrupeds Borracheria The Perils of Pulque A 

 Long-horned Dilemma Ex Infernis A Singular Instinct Fam- 

 ily Duties Vae Victis A Last Resort Zoological Superstitions 

 How Wild Sheep descend a Precipice Sheep-Hounds A 

 Hunter's Ruse Domestic Ferce "Sheep-tickle" The Wind 

 River Range Lonely Hunting-Grounds The Meadows of the 

 Sierra de San Simon Four-footed Bachelors A Wary Hermit 

 Rock-Labyrinths An Ethnological Conjecture . . . .60 



