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ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES. 



a plateau with 

 berry-b u s h e s 

 and without 

 a n y larger 

 trees; but, 

 though the 

 doe's cornered 

 him more than 

 twenty times, 

 he always man- 

 aged to break 

 away at the 

 approach of 

 the hunters, 

 till they finally 

 stampeded 

 lim over a cliff where 

 neither agility nor elastic 

 sinews could save his 

 bones from dislocation. 

 If the mental character- 

 istics of the four-handed 

 folk have anything in com- 

 mon with the arch-type of 

 our race, there would seem 

 to be a strong presumptive evidence that man is not per 

 naturam a law-abiding animal. The Psalmist may have 

 stretched his poetic license when he assured us that all 



SALTO MURTALE. 



