CONTENTS. 



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Thieves— Incurable Kleptomaniacs— Mr. Thielman's Cook— Mis- 

 placed Confidence— Monkey Education— A School for Pickpockets 

 .-Unnatural Mothers— Living by Stealth— Nest-hiding— A Queer 

 Predilection— Buddha's Foibles— A Moral Experiment— Martyrs to 

 Free Inquiry— Taciturn Monkeys— The Rhesus Baboon— An Ob- 

 scene Saint— Four-handed Drunkards— The Force of a Bad Ex- 

 ample—Is our Love of Salt Natural ?— Original Sin— Eating on 

 Principle— Fruges Consumere Nati— Lung- Poison— A Curious 

 Experiment— What Kills our Menagerie Monkeys— A Physiologi- 

 cal Puzzle— Anthropoid Monkeys— Their Antipathy to Children- 

 Paradoxical Character-Traits— The Monkeys of New Freiburg— 

 Over-practical Jokes— Fatal Consequences— The Victim of the 

 Wanderoos— Vicarious Atonement — The Faculty of Dissimulation. 21 



CHAPTER II. 



MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 



By-Laws of Nature — -Man and his Fellow-Creatures — Solution of a 

 Zoological Mystery — Survival under Difficulties — The Haunts of 

 the Mountain Sheep — Grazing Cimarrons — Picket-Posts — Retreat- 

 Tactics — Adventure of an American Engineer — A Camp of Obser- 

 vation — The Progress of Culture — Four-footed Emigrants — Colonel 

 Pennypacker's Recollections — Our Last Hunting-Grounds — The 

 Guests of the Northland — Winter-Horrors — A Strange Honeymoon 

 — Elder Millard's Discovery — Protective Instincts — An Ill-fated 

 Rookery — The Gamekeeper of Rheinharts-Brunn — Hibernation — 

 Biornir-Nott — Weather-Prophets — A Storm-Signal — Highland 

 Camps— Zoological Nondescripts — Perplexities of a Modern Na- 

 turalist — Untamable Kids — A Dangerous Pet — Don Panchito — 

 Intemperate Quadrupeds— Borracheria — The Perils of Pulque — A 

 Long-horned Dilemma— Ex Infernis— A Singular Instinct — Fam- 

 ily Duties— Vse Victis— A Last Resort— Zoological Superstitions 

 —How Wild Sheep descend a Precipice— Sheep-Hounds— A 

 Hunter's Ruse — Domestic Fera^" Sheep-tickle"— The Wind 

 River Range— Lonely Hunting-Grounds— The Meadows of the 

 1 ra de San Simon— Four-footed Bachelors— A Wary Hermit— 

 Rock-Labyrinths— An Ethnological Conjecture . . . .60 



