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ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES. 



The Rev. George Thielmann, of the Moravian Mission, 

 ho passed several years in the Eastern Punjaub, de- 

 scribes the despair of his German cook at the impudence 



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MISPLACED CONFIDENCE. 



of the light-fingered gentry. " I do not see how the 

 natives can stand it," said she : " if they take those ba- 

 boons for Christians, they ought to have a penitentiary 

 in every village." If she went to the door to answer a 

 bell, the macaques entered the kitchen through the rear 

 window ; going to look after her sun-dried peaches, 

 she found that the Bh under apes had been beforehand 



