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under the sofa. ' My poor guinea-pigs ! ' he ex- 

 claimed ; and, sure enough, four or five of them had 

 fallen victims." 



Tiglath Pileser, the bear, had to be sent away 

 from Christ Church. The dean said, " I hear you 

 keep a bear in college ; well, either you or your 

 bear must go." So Tig was sent to Islip, seven 

 miles from Oxford, a living held by Dean Buck- 

 land, who had now become Dean of Westminster. 

 The bear did so much mischief at Islip, in grocer's 

 shops and houses, that he was sent to the zoological 

 gardens, where he died in cutting his teeth. 



Jacko, the monkey, was a source of great amuse- 

 ment, and greatly prized by young Buckland. 

 " Once, when carrying him on a railway train, in a 

 lawyer's blue bag," says Mr. Buckland, in his 

 " Curiosities of Natural History," published some 

 years afterwards, " Jacko, Avho must needs see 

 everything that was going on, suddenly poked his 

 head out of the bag, and gave a malicious grin at 

 the ticket-giver. This much frightened the poor 

 man, but, with great presence of mind, quite as- 

 tonishing under the circumstances, he retaliated 

 the insult, ' Sir, that's a dog ; you must pay for it 

 accordingly.' In vain was the monkey made to 

 come out of the bag and exhibit his whole person ; 

 in vain were arguments in full accordance with the 

 views of Cuvier and Owen urged eagerly, vehe- 

 mently, and without hesitation (for the train was 

 on the point of starting), to prove that the animal 

 in question was not a dog, but a monkey. A dog 



