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Quadrupeds. 
range in herds through the deserts of Arabia, and bound 
from rock to rock with wonderful agility. Their Ijong 
and slender legs are peculiarly suited to their habits and 
manners of life, and are, in some of the species, so slen- 
der and brittle as to snap with a very trifling blow. 
The Arabs, taking advantage of this circumstance, catch 
them by throwing sticks at them, by which their legs 
are broken. 
THE GAZELLE. (Antilope Dorcas.) 
" The wild Gazelle, on Judah's hills, 
Exulting yet may bound, 
And drink from all the living rills 
That gush on holy ground. 
Its airy step and glorious eye 
May glance in tameless transport by." — Byron. 
The Gazelle is the most elegant of antelopes. The Ara- 
bian poets have applied their choicest epithets to the 
beauty of this animal, and their descriptions have been 
adopted into our own poetry. Byron, in speaking of 
the dark eyes of an eastern beauty, says : 
" Go look on those of the Gazelle." 
