10 FACTS AGAINST FICTION. 



content myself with mere references to the matter 

 contained in the theoretic book before me. 



If Darwin, in his curious and most extensive 

 researches, could only have established the fact 

 of a fossil ape, first as an original ape, and then 

 have discovered the fossil remains of an ape in an 

 improved form, leading on to the tailless ape or 

 man, he would have had something more than 

 theory on which to l3ase his amusing imagination. 

 If monkeys or apes were, as he says, the original 

 ancestors of man, then, in all probability, some 

 transitional specimens would remain in a state of 

 stony preservation; instead of which, neither 

 monkey nor man can be found, although the 

 most perishable of all bones, those of tlic ^^ water- 

 rat," are known to exist in a fossil state. 



In my experience among wild animals some 

 extraordinary facts have fallen under my notice; 

 such, for instance, as the double uterus of ^ 

 healthful doe being found to contain not only the 

 live fawn, to be ^'fallen" in the next succeeding 

 May or June, l^ut also the remains of a dead fawn 

 of tlie previous breeding season, which ought to 

 have been born, but had never come to light. 



I do not, therefore, reject a fact, merely because 



