CONTENTS. i ] 



CHAPTER III. 



A STEP-CHILD OF NATURE. 



Mexican Mountain-Forests — The Mono Espectro — Voices of the 

 Wilderness — Dog-day Siesta — A Daylight Owl — The Tardo Ne- 

 gro — A Chase in the Tree-tops — Constitutional Stoicism — The 

 Better Part of Valor — An Awkward Predicament — Frugal Habits 

 — A Child of the Air — Arboreal Mammals — Euphorbia-Trees — A 

 Hairy Hamadryad — Four-footed Trappists — A Vital Problem — 

 The Crime of Helplessness — Adventure of a Lumberman — Martes 

 torquatus — Chicken-Thieves— Mischief-Joy — Life under Difficul- 

 ties — The Tarda Morena — In Articulo Mortis — A Sleepless Crea- 

 ture — Survivors of the Fern-Age — The Spotted Sloth — A Three- 

 legged Pensioner — Grunts et praeterea nihil — A Freak of Nature 

 — Imperturbable Stoicism — A Philosopher of the Horatian School 

 — Cinderella — -A Strange Pet — -Abusing Good-Nature — Precocious 

 Egotism — Nostalgia — Universal Instincts — Non-resistance — The 

 Wisdom of Compensating Nature — Secrets of Happiness . . 79 



CHAPTER IV. 



SECRETIVENESS. 



Rudimentary Instincts — Their Natural Development — The Faculty 

 of Direction — Hunting under Water — The Simia Destructor and 

 his Four-footed Rivals — Phrenological Indications — The Skull of 

 a Weasel — The Hiding-Faculty — Artful Dodgers — Nest-Hiding — 

 Bears and Birds — The Orchard Oriole — Birds Fooling their Pur- 

 suers — Instincts of Young Birds — Impromptu Hiding-Place — An 

 Astonished Fox-Hunter — Procul de Jove — Outwitting his Landlord 

 — Raccoons and Muskrats — What becomes of Dead Animals — 

 Secretiveness in Articulo Mortis — A Lost Pet — Where they found 

 Him — Night-Walkers — The Ghost Hour — Mysteries of a Poultry- 

 House — Night Visions — Migratory Birds — Their Favorite Routes — 

 Nocturnal Wanderers — Paso del Norte — Plenty Room higher up 



