CONTENTS. 



tion — Natural Safeguards — Du Chaillu's Gorilla — Contradictory 

 Reports — The Protege of the Berlin Aquarium — Young Animals 

 — Their Natural Tameness — Jaguar Cubs — Unconditional Surren- 

 der — Dietetic Influences — Infidel Pets — The Postmaster of San 

 Pablo — Juanita — A Friend in Need — Jacko's Adventure — By the 

 Skin of his Teeth — Independent Youngsters — Monkey-Babies — 

 Their Ridiculous Tameness — My Bonnet-Macaque — A Four-handed 

 Micawber — Love in Abstracto — Billy Hammock's Pets — A Fawn- 

 finder — Dutch Storks — Their Fondness for Human Society — Fore- 

 going their Winter-Trip — Rival Pets — Scared Chickens — Untam- 

 able Animals — Hospitality — Herr Hainan's Boarders — The Guests 

 of Miss Meiringer — Suaviter in modo — The Funeral of St. Renal- 

 dus — Grateful Bucks — The Santon of the Bakony Wald — Personal 

 Magnetism — The White Doe of Rylstone — A Four-legged Kid- 

 napper — An Affectionate Lynx — The Love-lorn Dolphin — A 

 Strange Legend — The Whelps of the She- Wolf — A Story from 

 India — The Wolf-Boys — Discovery of a Tax-Collector — Dietetic 

 Predilections — A Strange Orphan — The Mountain-Wolf — Hunting 

 Panthers and Trained Eagles — The Art of Falconry — Winged 

 Retrievers — The Eagle of Judenburg — A Useful Bird — The Pen- 

 sioners of Vishnu — St. Anthony's Pigs — An Eccentric Lady — The 

 Curiosities of Mount Morris — Domestic Bears — Frank Buckland's 

 Rats — Useless Pets are the most Affectionate — The Instinct of 

 Freedom — Its Unexpected Revivals — The German Barnum — A 

 Lion at large — Homeward Bound — Passive Resistance — Taming 

 a Jackal — A Heroic Cure — The Canopy of a Beast-Tamer — A Re- 

 luctant Boarder — The Landlord of Eluelen — Love's Labor Lost — 

 Snake-Charmers — Dr. Grotius's Remark — East Indian Beast- 

 Charmers — Dangerous Pets — The Guruwalla — Lord Dalhousie's 

 Wizard — The Coluber Dryas — Natural Magic — An Alligator- 

 Charmer — Business Secrets — Professional Rat-catchers — East In- 

 dian Exiles — Gypsy Tricks — The Story of the Pied Piper — Orpheus 

 — Self-sacrificing Animals — Major Keogh's Old Roan — The Train 

 of the Wahabees — Trusty Dogs — The Shepherds of the Transvaal — 

 Professor Schomberg's Experiment — The Power of Conscience — 

 Enfant Perdu — The Lex Talionis — Micheline — Freak of a Tame 

 Elephant — The Influence of Education — Hunting Panthers — A 

 Test of Loyalty — Town-Dogs — Their Trials and Temptations — 

 The Salzburg Acropolis — Sensitive Bats — Schopenhauer's Theory 



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