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A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS WITH PICTURES BY PERCY J. BILLINGHURST
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A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS
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A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS WITH PICTURES BY PERCY J. BILLINGHURST
JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON AND NEW YORK 1901.
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Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press
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CONTENTS.
Page A
_Are Beasts mere Machines?_ 76 _Ass Cast Away, An_ 196 _Assisting the Aged_ 144
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_Bear and Child, The_ 48 _Bear Cubs, The_ 184 _Broken Heart, The_ 62
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_Calculating Crow, A_ 56 _Canine Sheep-Stealer, A_ 38 _Canine Smugglers_ 36 _Carrier's Dog, A_ 170 _Cat and Crows, The_ 26 _Catcher Caught, The_ 188 _Charitable Canary, A_ 166 _Child Saved, A_ 200 _Choice Retaliation, A_ 82 _Comedy of Quadrupeds, A_ 64 _Concerts of Animals_ 90 _Conversing Parrot, A_ 20 _Crab Fishing_ 152 _Cunning as a Fox_ 66
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_Death of Antiochus Revenged, The_ 52 _Deceiving the Fowler_ 190 _Dinner Bell, The_ 30 _Division of Labour_ 150 _Dog and Goose, The_ 40 _Dog of Montargis, The_ 46 _Dolphin, The_ 50 _Domesticated Seal, A_ 122 _Drawing Water_ 60
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Billinghurst
- 2: The 18 Providential Safe Conduct
- 3: The elephant instantly stopped
- 4: Kept a tame baboon for his amusement
- 5: The choristers began the same piece again
- 6: And a Brazilian who spoke Dutch
- 7: Leading by the ear another rat
- 8: While the raven hopped about the room
- 9: After the execution of Sabinus
- 10: A wren built her nest in a box
- 11: Simo came scudding to the shore
- 12: Took the bleeding Porus up with his trunk
- 13: An ass was employed at Carisbrook Castle
- 14: The mastiff silently followed him upstairs
- 15: Who exhibited elephant rope dancers
- 16: The ostrich moves like the partridge
- 17: She was accompanied by a greyhound
- 18: The abbot said that the thing could doubtless be done
- 19: But the mastiff slackened his pace
- 20: The lioness arrived unperceived by the huntsman
- 21: On the soldiers taking Maldonata away
- 22: And the greyhound to catch them
- 23: From this circumstance it occurred to the gamekeeper that
- 24: She perceived a brood of ducklings
- 25: And Sirrah standing in front of them
- 26: The keeper entered the animal's cage
- 27: Its usual companions were a greyhound and spaniel
- 28: By little caresses extremely touching
- 29: Illustration ANECDOTE LXXVIII
- 30: Which he supposed were those of the lioness
- 31: Until the goldfinches undertook the office themselves
- 32: The Kalmucs continue the custom to this day
- 33: And attended by three other storks
- 34: Deciding to purchase another for the return journey
- 35: Had found his way from Point de Gat to Gibraltar
- 36: After a fruitless search of many hours
- 37: Percy Billinghurst has done the pictures