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few circles in the air, alights upon the dead animal and feeds 

 to his heart's content. After eating until he can eat no more, 

 he thinks of moving, but as he does not chose to take the 

 trouble of flying perpendicularly in so narrow a space, he prefers 

 to walk out through the door, and is straightway strangled by 

 the ready noose. IL. 



The Unscrupulous Money-Getter. 



The unscrupulous money-getter is not necessarily an able man. 

 On the contrary, he often appears dull and stupid. But he is 

 rapacious, cruel, and cunning, and he owes his success to these 

 qualities. Notwithstanding the applause with which society 

 greets his performances, they have much the same inspiration as 

 those of the glutton. The glutton is thought but a dull animal, 

 but his mode of catching deer shows much the same portion of 

 intelligence as that which is exhibited by the money-getter, or 

 by the Arctic fox when he arranges cods' heads as baits to catch 

 crows. The glutton climbs into a tree in the neighbourhood of 

 a herd, carrying up with him a quantity of a kind of riioss of 

 which the deer are fond, and when he sees any one of the herd 

 approaching, he lets a portion of the moss fall. If the deer 

 stops to eat, the glutton instantly descends on its back, and 

 torments it by tearing out its eyes and other violence to such 

 a degree that, either to get rid of its enemy, or to put an end 

 to its sufferings, it beats its head against the trees till it falls 

 down dead ; for when the glutton has once fixed himself by his 

 claws and teeth, it is impossible to dislodge him. After killing 

 the deer he divides the flesh into convenient portions, and con- 

 ceals them in the earth for future provision. In this he shows 

 himself to be as prudential as the money-getter, who at the end 

 of a nefarious financial success places his profits in various 

 securities and the balance in his bank for future use. K. 



Unscrupulous Depredators. 



The white-headed eagle (Haliaetus le.ucoceplialus) of the 

 United States of North America is an emblem of those un- 

 scrupulous politicians, lawyers, brokers and adventurers who live 



