CHAPTER VII 



DO MEN THINK? 



DO ANIMALS POSSESS INSTINCT THE EFFECT OF THE 

 CHWESE GONG UPON THE HOTEL GUESTS NEGROES 

 AND OXEN WHAT IS INSTINCT ? HOW TO CONCEAL IGNOR- 

 ANCE HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE ACTION OF LOWER 

 ANIMALS EARLY NATURE FAKIRS FUNNY OLD HENRY 

 VII. THE GRIZZLY BEAR WHIPS THE KING OF BEASTS 

 RATS UNABLE TO SOLVE A NEW PUZZLE WISE MEN 

 FOOLED ON THE FIRST OF APRIL BROWN BESS THE BAR 

 LIFTER THE COON THAT SOLVED A NEW PROBLEM HE 

 EATS THEM ALIVE A MONKEY THAT SOMETIMES TURNED 

 THE HYDRANT OFF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT KID 

 WHICH PLAYED THAT THE HOTEL TOWELS WERE SNOW 

 FOOLISH COWS THAT EAT SHIRTS 



Twenty-five years ago the dinner-gong was in 

 common use at hotels and boarding houses and 

 there are men living today who can remember 

 when this noisy oriental instrument was first in- 

 troduced, and all of them can remember the first 

 time they heard one of them. 



When the Chinese Gong was introduced in the 

 Burnett House in Cincinnati, at the first quivering 

 noise the guests sat up straight in their chairs and 

 looked wildly at each other, as the clamor in- 

 creased in volume the guests rose hastily from their 

 seats, and when the noise was at its worst there 



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