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what great results may arise from persevering and associated 

 labour ! I. o. 



Astonishment. 



Certain folks are perpetually being astonished. The staunch 

 old Churchman is astonished at any innovation in the form of 

 worship ; he cannot recognise his religion unless it has always 

 the same surroundings. The old Tory is always astonished at 

 the inevitable changes in the details of the Constitution ; for 

 unless he has all the same externals he cannot believe his 

 position to be safe. Among domestic animals the cow is the 

 worthy representation of this feeling of astonishment. On any 

 alteration of its accustomed haunts, such as the change in the 

 appearance of a building, it is as astonished as a narrow 

 theologian is at a new theological term. The astonishment of 

 the cow at a new door has made the proverb, " Like a cow at a 

 new door." Dogs are astonished at any change in the outward 

 appearance of those they are familiar with, and at any strange 

 object : encompassing it repeatedly, and smelling at it to discover 

 its nature. They cannot recognise their master in the water, 

 but swim round him, astonished at hearing his voice, without 

 identifying him. p. 



Athletic Glory. 



The young athletic negroes in their ivory hunts well know 

 the prowess of the gorilla. He does not, like the lion, sullenly 

 retreat on seeing them, but swings himself rapidly down to the 

 lower branches, courting the conflict, and clutches at the fore- 

 most of his enemies. The hideous aspect of his visage, his 

 green eyes flashing with rage, is heightened by the thick and 

 prominent brows being drawn spasmodically up and down, with 

 the hair erect, causing a horrible and fiendish scowl. Weapons 

 are torn from their possessor's grasp, gun-barrels bent and 

 crushed in by the powerful hands and vice-like teeth of the 

 enraged athlete. Two negroes will be walking through one of 

 the woodland paths, unsuspicious of evil, when in an instant 

 one misses his companion, or turns to see him drawn up in .the 

 air with a convulsed, choking cry, and in a few minutes dropped 

 to the ground a strangled corpse. The terrified survivor gazes 



