Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts
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Chapters (81)
- Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts
- I. Three Men Together
- II. The Wonderful Escape of “Tiger-Hill”
- III. Sherlock Holmes in a Wood
- IV. Where Tigers Flourish
- 1. Tigers in the Air
- 2. Tigers Victorious
- 3. Working Alongside
- 4. At very Close Quarters
- 5. The Charge of the Tigress
- V. The Girl and the Tigress
- VI. The Old Men and the Tiger
- VII. Recovering the Corpse
- VIII. The Inspector’s Escape
- IX. The Sound of Humanity
- X. The Tiger at the Rifle-Range
- XI. A Lesson from the Water Buffalo
- 1. The Buffalo and the Skunk
- 2. Hunting the Buffalo
- 3. Taming the Buffalo
- XII. The Buffalo and the Crocodile
- XIII. A Nest of Crocodiles
- XIV. Useful Snakes
- XV. The Tucktoo
- XVI. The Kitten’s Catch
- XVII. The Leopard as a Killer of Men
- 1. Twice Twenty Years Ago or More
- 2. A Leopard that Loved the Ladies
- 3. No Man Comes Amiss
- 4. Its Way of Doing
- 5. The Final Fight
- XVIII. On Heads in General
- XIX. The Unfinished Speech and Dance
- XX. The Big Pet Cat
- XXI. The Leopard that Needed a Dentist
- XXII. The Devil as a Leopard
- XXIII. The Gallant Leopard
- XXIV. A Dumb Appeal put into Words
- XXV. The Fox in the Suez Canal
- XXVI. Solidarity among the Brutes
- 1. Elephants
- 2. The Baboons and the Leopard
- 3. The Indian Baboons and the Bear
- 4. Simla Monkeys
- 5. Co-operation
- XXVII. A Run for Life
- XXVIII. Mother’s Love among the Monkeys
- XXIX. Exit the Hunter
- 1. Up to Date
- 2. The Lion in Death
- 3. Killing Tigers and Apes
- 4. The Happy Hunter
- 5. The Use of Hunting
- 6. Irresistible Evolution
- XXX. Charlie Darwin, or the Lady-Gibbon
- 1. Children of Air, in General
- 2. “Charlie Darwin”
- 3. Running Away
- 4. Settling Down
- 5. Teasing Tom
- 6. Evening and Morning
- 7. Table Manners
- 8. Dogs
- 9. Equality is Equity
- 10. Where Civilisation Began
- 11. Filial Feeling
- 12. Agreeable Sensations
- 13. Corroborating Aristotle & Co.
- 14. The Last Chapter
- XXXI. The Brief Biography of a Little Bear
- 1. Early Days
- 2. Up the Chimney
- 3. At a Railway Station
- 4. A Breakfast at Ye-U
- 5. The Bear and the Perambulator
- 6. Life in a Country Town
- 7. The Wonderful Suckling
- 8. Harum-Scarum
- 9. All the Rest
- 10. Her Epitaph
- XXXII. A Chinese Hunter
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