CONTENTS 



I 



Richmond Park — Red deer — An adventure with a hind 

 eating acorns — Watching a Ustening 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 



II 



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 



III 



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 ........ ig 



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