406 FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLANl). 



it was in the peculiar views of the official, and 

 three-and-sixpence was paid. 



" Thinking to carry the joke further (there were 

 just a few minutes to spare), I took out from my 

 pocket a live tortoise I happened to have with me, 

 and, showing it, said, ' What must I pay for this, 

 as you charge for all animals ? ' The employe ad- 

 justed his specs, withdrew from the desk to con- 

 sult with his superior ; then returning, gave the 

 verdict with a grave but determined manner, ( No 

 charge for them, sir ; them be insects.' " When- 

 ever Jacko got loose, he found mischief. One day 

 he covered a shoe, sole and all, with blacking, and 

 poured what was left in the bottle inside the shoe. 

 He also rubbed the white kitchen table all over 

 with black-lead and water. 



Young Buckland spent his vacations at the Uni- 

 versity of Giessen, under the famous teacher and 

 chemist, Professor Liebig, to whom he became 

 greatly attached. " Returning in October, 1845, .1 

 brought with me," he says, " about a dozen green 

 tree-frogs, which I had caught in the woods near 

 the town. ... I started at night on my homeward 

 journey by the diligence, and I put the bottle con- 

 taining the frogs into the pocket inside the dili- 

 gence. My fellow-passengers were sleepy old 

 smoke-dried Germans. Very little conversation 

 took place, and, after the first mile, every one set- 

 tled himself to sleep, and soon all were snoring. 

 I suddenly awoke with a start, and found all the 

 sleepers had been roused at the same moment. 



