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Richmond Park Red deer An adventure with a hind 

 eating acorns Watching a listening hind Senses in 

 dog and deer compared Senses and instinct in wild 

 and domestic animals Man and beast compared 

 The hind divides her listening sense in two parts The 

 trumpet ear and the ear trumpet Strange case of a 

 deaf lady listening through an ear trumpet to a sermon i 



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Ears in man and other animals Ears in primitive man 

 Atavism in ears, in the twitching-muscle and the 

 teeth Teeth-gnashing faculty The teeth as a musical 

 instrument Cave men's chamber music A natural 

 ear-pad Helping our ears Wind-made noises in our 

 ears a defect A wind symphony . . . 13 



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Our senses An atmospheric and wind sense A difficult 

 subject Our feeling about the wind Women's un- 

 suitable clothing Eastern and Western dress A 

 woman's fight with the wind A ludicrous sight which 

 was beautiful An historical question Light from 

 the dark ages Sheep-shearing A saint's biography 

 Ellen in News from Nowhere Wind in poetical 

 literature . . . . -. . * . 19 



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