360 FRANCIS TREVELYAN AUCKLAND. 



stuffed forms of Tiglath Pileser and Billy the 

 liysena were in the hall. Jenny, a monkey from 

 Gibraltar, had come to join Jacko, bringing a pet 

 chicken with her, which lived in her cage, and 

 which she fondled as a nurse does a child. Here 

 were tailless Manx cats, lizards, snakes, and fifty 

 or sixty rats, usually kept in the cellar. Young 

 Buckland would often take snakes out of his pock- 

 ets to show his friends. "Don't be afraid," he 

 said to a young lady at a party, as he showed her 

 some snakes ; " they won't hurt you, I've taken 

 out their fangs. Now, do be a good girl, and don't 

 make a fuss ; " and he wreathed one snake around 

 her neck, and one round each arm. " His sisters 

 were so often bedecked with similar reptilian neck- 

 laces and armlets that they became used to the 

 somewhat clammy, crawling sensation which is a 

 drawback to such ornaments." 



About this time, Buckland wrote an article on 

 the muscles of the arm, and took it to several 

 periodicals, but none would accept it. Urged by 

 Mr. White Cooper, the queen's oculist, he wrote 

 an article upon his rats, which the friend carried 

 to "Bentley's Miscellany." It was accepted, and 

 thus began his successful authorship. This was 

 subsequently published in his first book, " Curiosi- 

 ties of Natural History," in 1857. 



He tells of one of his rat families : " One day a 

 poor mother had moved her young about into sev- 

 eral parts of the cage, but could not fix on one 

 point. I saw what was wanting, she could not 



