92 coy o> GR, Rowell on‘the- 
A similar accident once happened to a coach-horse the pro- 
oily of the late Mr. Costar of Oxford ; it was | ‘when the 
coach stopped to change horses, to have. dislocate ne fetlogle 
and from 1 
‘ave rn)n 9a > oF | h jaf “4 
have ru distance along the road in that pes. 
sing + that a pitited horse, in Soe with others, shistibd eetialp 
er such circumstances; but in the former case, there 
was Sohne to excite the horse but its. hunger, and if the pain 
had been equal to what such a dreadful injury would seem to in- 
dicate, it would probably, if in ever such a famished state, have 
gone ‘upon its knees to feed, rather than upon the inj parts. 
It is curious to re. the apparent indifference with which 
some animals’ will devour parts of their own bodies. I once 
kept tame dormice, and, in shutting the cage door, re 
eaught the tail « of one of them, when it cope out and left 
skin of about two thirds of its tail sticking to the door. 
ee 
the cry was caused. iy pain or fear, I eannot deeide; but it) went 
about the cage for a few minutes 
took hold of its tail with i its s PAS and eat all the injured party 
— wie gga as well as 
s will often eat idie i shite when in conitiundtint? hs kept 
= of food ; oa the habit of eating their own tails is not un 
to dip the end of his monkey’s tail in tobacco water to k 
from being eaten, and some of the monkeys in the’ London Zoo- 
| Garden may at times be seen et thpraoelven deel 
common amongst the monkey tribe. I know a person who used — 
way ; but from whatever cause this propensity may arise, I be-— 
ogee rndver indulged in by the monkeys with es 
; seem to be too useful to be so ed of, 
sense of pat 8 er 
. few years since, the @uneeriy Review, ina noticeof the: 
: ne. Westminster’ ye war on the canes soupe in the aveat 
ne 2 pce ag Beg tage wattle Sianigies very wane 
ration, the parts being cut with hot weer + = i saw an 
ed bull after undergoing that operation, kaw 
concernedly, and then er grazing’ for apo. a Bal " hout, he 
lay down and chewed his cud apparently quite pany ins ee 
Pigs make a sad -— when Bei being k d,. bui 
eaused by fear the uncomf rtable way in w 
pass ais Of, 
nd I have no doubt are © therefore possessed of a much greater 
