CHAPTER VI. 



On Quadrupeds. 



AS it is often impossible to convey home, the 

 quadrupeds a traveller may meet with in 

 visiting foreign lands, it becomes necessary to 

 take off and preserve their skins ; many of 

 which, especially those from newly discovered 

 countries, interest us extremely, either by 

 their beauty or their novelty. 



THERE are few who have not seen a poul- 

 terer take the skin from a rabbit, or a butcher 

 perform the same operation on a sheep or ox ; 

 a lesson from either of those persons would be 

 of use to the traveller. In taking the skin 



