CUNNING OF GLUTTON 
alternate procedure lasts as long as does the carcass ; 
after it is eaten up to the last morsel, the glutton sets 
out in quest of another.” It suggests, as occurs to 
Olaus Magnus, the ancient Romans who, “ vorando 
bibendoque vomunt redeuntque ad mensam.” Like 
many eaters of carcasses the glutton also pursues and 
kills living food. . 
It is said to bring great cunning to bear upon its 
predatory expeditions and to observe, and select in 
accordance with its observations, a tree whose bark 
has been scored by the horns of the expected deer, and 
then to spring with one fierce bound upon its neck and 
crunch it todeath. In any case it has been indisputably 
seen running hard after a hare. It is much more likely 
that the glutton is mainly devoted to carrion, but 
that now and then, by way of a variety, it succeeds in 
overpowering some weakly but living creature. This 
“vulture among quadrupeds,” as it has not ineptly 
been called, is nevertheless tamable. Audubon and 
Bachman, who are among the principal natural historians 
of the animals of North America, relate that a Gulo was 
so adequately tamed that it sat up on its haunches and 
smoked a pipe. It is an odd fact, exemplified also in 
the chimpanzee “ Consul,” that the imitation of smoking 
is always gloried over and “ par’d”’ as a human attribute 
much more than such genuine human qualities as the 
capacity for counting and other really intellectual 
_ achievements on the part of monkeys and others. It is 
true that the “learned pig’’ appears to confute this 
suggestion. But it is gravely to be suspected that that 
favourite of some decades since also held a pipe and re- 
ferred to a tall glass. The late Dr. Elliot Coues, the 
American ornithologist, was struck by the magpie-like 
curiosity of the glutton, a characteristic which it shares 
with the raccoon, its ally. An individual stole from a 
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