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— A Premature Boast — Rowdy Jack — The Scythe Brigade — Natural 

 Selection— Ethical Contradictions — Bishop Riley's Respondent — 

 An Argumentum ad Judicium — Gran Matanza — The Roman Circus 

 Games — Their Magnitude and Influence — Startling Statistics — An 

 Army of Wild Beasts — African Novelties — The Spanish Moriscos 

 — Bull-Fights — A National Mania — Papal Edicts— Bulls and Coun- 

 ter-Bulls — Jose Perez — His Popularity and Successful Career — 

 Popular Bulls — A Reluctant Triumphator — Apis-Worship — Fight- 

 ing Elephants — No Sinecure — The Hutti — Untimely Tantrums — 

 Dying Revenge — Hindostan Beast- Fights — Royal Sportsmen — The 

 Prince of Baroda— A Private Menagerie — Famous Fighters — A 

 Carnivorous Horse — Black Jan — The Idol of Samarang — Wolf- 

 Baiting — Hungarian Sports — Sunday Morning Amusements — Bruin 

 and the Pinchers — A Magnanimous Victor — Grizzly Bears — Mr. 

 Presswood's Boy — The Mustek Martes — Guerre a. l'outrance — The 

 Rock-Plover — Paid in his own Coin — Ferrets and Rats — Bulldog 

 Courage — Baron Gaisner's Wager — Tackling a Panther — An As- 

 tonished Dog — Prehistoric Sports — Spanish Man-hunts — Leoni- 

 cico — A Werewolf — Balboa's " Adjutant" — A Rival of Cerberus — 

 Aragon Hounds — Vse Victis — The Rhamadan — A Strategic Sug- 

 gestion — Dutch Sports — The Pets of Amsterdam — Muidenhaven — 

 Private Circenses — Dog-Dynasties — An Invincible Quadruped — 

 Street-Fights — Not Easy to Scare — A Stranger from Ceylon — King 

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