Shepherd. Let me see-I sud hae nae great objections to be a whale in the Polar Seas. Gran' fun to fling a boatfu' o' harpooners into the air—or, wi' ae thud o' your tail, to drive in the stern posts o' a Greenlandman. Tickler. Grander fun still, James, to feel the inextricable harpoon in your blubber, and to go snoving away beneath an ice-floe with four miles of line connecting you with your distant enemies. Shepherd. But, then, whales marry but ae wife, and are passionately attached to their offspring. There they and I are congenial speerits. Nae fish that swims enjoys so large a share of domestic happiness. Tickler. A whale, James, is not a fish. Shepherd. Isna he? Let him alane for that. He's ca'd a fish in the Bible, and that's better authority than Buffon. Oh that I were a whale !* With these sentences, we conclude this book, as well as our selections on the whale. In the Museum at Edinburgh may be seen one of the finest, if not the most perfect, skeleton of a whale exhibited in this kingdom. Our young readers there can soon see, by examining it from the gallery, that the whale is no "fish." "Noctes Ambrosianæ," Works of Professor Wilson, vol. ii., p. 4. INDEX. ADDISON and Steele on the peculiarities Ass, Sydney Smith on sagacity of, 283. Asses with deers' antlers fastened on heads, 284; duty free, 284. BABOONS, Lady Anne Barnard on, Babylon, bas-relief of dog found at, Back, Sir George, anecdote of Arctic Badger, 71; anecdotes of, 72-75. Barrentz on white or Polar bear, 64. Bats, fantastic faces of, 38, 39. Bears, 56, 57; anecdotes of, 58-70. Bell-Rock horse, 257. Bentham, Jeremy, and his pet cat, Bess, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's, Bisset and his trained monkeys, 25, Black Dwarf's cat, 157. Boar, wild, 239-245. Border, cow getting across, 309. Bradford, Earl of, on the number of Bristol, Bishop of, comparing Cam- Brown, Dr John, "Rab" and "Our Browning, Mrs Elizabeth Barrett, lines Bull, an Irish, 304. Bull, Rev. Wm., Newton, and Toplady, Bull-baiting at Olney, 313; Windham Bull-ring, Philip IV. in, 310. Bullock and Dr Adam Clarke, 305, Burke, Edmund, question when inter Burns' "Twa Dogs," 81, 82; the field- Bussapa, the tiger-slayer, 162–164. "CALAMITY," a horse of Sydney Calf, a great, 304. Calves and kine, 304. Camel, Captain Wm. Peel on, 287- Campbell, Colonel, account of Bussapa and the tiger, 162-164. Carnac and the she-goat, 299. Cat's letter, by Montgomery, 156. Chalmers, Dr, and the guinea-pig, 223, Cheiroptera, the order which contains Cockburn, Lord, and the sheep at Collie at Cultershaw, 82, Collins, Wm., R.A., and Sir David Cook's sailor, who took a fox-bat for Cooke, Major-General, 189. Coon, a gone, 71. Couthon and the spaniel, 195. Cowper's narrative of his pet hares, Cows, anecdotes of, 306-311. Cross, Edward, of Exeter Change and Cruelty to horses in Ireland, 275. Curran on Lord Clare's dog, 98. Dragon-fly exhibited at a show, 61. killed at, 113. Drew on the instinct of dogs, 98-100. Dunbar, Rev. Rowland Hill at, 261. EARL'S Court, Hunter's menagerie at, Eastern dogs, 84, 85. Edmonstone, Dr, on Shetland seals, Eglintoun, Countess of, her fondness Elephant and his trunk, 232; anec- Epomophorus, a genus of tropical bats Ettrick Shepherd's monkey, 27, 28; FABRICIUS On Arctic fox, 143. Field mouse turned up by Robert Findhorn fisherman and monkey, 29, Flush, lines to her dog, by Mrs Foote, Samuel, makes cows pull bell Forster, Dr, on the fox-bats of the Fox, Charles James, on the poll-cat, Fox, 138. Fox-hunting, from the "Noctes," 139- 141. Fox-bats, particulars of their history, Frederick the Great and his Italian French count at deer-stalking, 293, Fuller on Norfolk rabbits, 223. Fuseli on Northcote's picture of Future state of animals, Toplady on, GAINSBOROUGH and Fowler the tailor, Garrick and the horse, 259. George IV. visited at Windsor by Gilpin's, Bernard, horses stolen and Gilpin's, Rev. Mr, love of the pic- Gilray's caricature Burke as dogs, 724. of Fox and Gimcrack, the widow, her letter to Mr Giraffe, anecdotes of, 291-295. Glirine animals, 195, 212 Goats, anecdotes of, 299, 300. Goethe on stag-trench at Frankfort, Good enough for a pig, 251. Gordon, Duchess of, and the wolf-dog, Gorilla and its story, 9-22. Graham, Rev. W., on dogs in the X |