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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



—Musical Brutes— After Dark— Night-Terrors—Types and Arche- 

 types—Origin of a Strange Character-Trait — The Power of Habit — 

 Mill-Horses— Survival of the Fittest — The Influence of Domestica- 

 tion — A Conjecture • . 1S4 



CHAPTER IX. 



TRAPS. 



Tool-making Animals — A First Attempt — Monkey- Men — The Value 

 of Experience — Experts and Amateurs — Von Tschudi's Anecdote — 

 A Vicuna-Trap — Hunter's Secret — Race-Foibles — How Minks are 

 Trapped — Turkey-Pens — A Strange Fact — Secret Burrows — Favor- 

 ite Haunts — Ideal Luxuries — Cardinal Retz — Partridge- Hunters — 

 A Fatal Foible — Simple Rat-Traps — The Nest-hiding Faculty — 

 Persistent Intruders — A Rat-proof Building — Otter Burrows — Fun- 

 loving Animals — Unexpected Results — A Trapper's Trick — Olfac- 

 tory Predilections — Strange Preferences — De < rustibus, etc. — Sewer 

 Studies — Rat-Poison — A Singular Fact — The Language <>f Signs — 

 Profiting by Experience — Rats — Their Parental Solicitude — The 

 Trappers of Singapore — Outwitted Monkeys — Fuddle-Cakes — 

 Dangerous Munificence — A Counter-Stratagem — In Gloria — The 

 Wages of Sin — Steel-Traps — Ferocious Captives— Catching a Wild- 

 Cat— Liberty or Death— Pitfalls— A Daring Trapper— In for it- 

 American Hindoos — The Monkeys of Michoacan — A Test of Pa- 

 tience—Retribution by Proxy— Capuchin-Traps— The Trampa— 

 Strong Inducements— The Inhumanity of Man to Man— Templed 

 Guests— A Monkey Patriarch— Impulse vs. Principle— A LucU 

 Stranger— Panic-Stricken— Lord Bacon's Remark— The Owl-Trap 

 — Biters Bit — A Curious Experiment ... . . 223 



CHAPTER X. 



FOUR-FOOTED PRIZE-FIGHTERS. 



Circus Combats— Herbert Spencer's Remark— Sax. a,, and Latins— 

 An Easy Way to cross the Styx— Death in Battle— Torres Vedras 



