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PASTORAL DAYS. 



employed. To this little humpbacked creature I am indebted for a great 

 deal of past amusement. Distinctly I remember the whack-whack-whack 



on the inside of the old pasteboard box 

 as the captive pets threatened to dash 

 out their brains in their demon- 

 strations at my approach. Pro- 

 •MS^~ fessor Wiggler is really a most 

 *-*K 'Zfim&k--' \ ' remarkable in- 



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SOME ART CONNOISSEURS. 



sect, as one might readily imagine from his sci- 

 entific name, for in learned circles this individual 



is known as Mr. Gramatophora Trisignata. He has many strange eccen- 

 tricities. -.At each moult of the skin he retains the shell of his former 



