Heads and tales
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"My adventures and experiences of 'head-hunting' in the near and far corners of the earth--and how the hundred racial types in the 'Hall of man' of the Field museum in Chicago were selected and modelled on the road."--p. 3.
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- HEADS AND TALES;
- OR,
- ANECDOTES AND STORIES OF QUADRUPEDS AND OTHER BEASTS,
- CHIEFLY CONNECTED WITH INCIDENTS IN THE HISTORIES OF MORE OR LESS DISTINGUISHED MEN.
- COMPILED AND SELECTED BY
- ADAM WHITE,
- LATE ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- HEADS AND TALES.
- MAN.
- Thomas Gainsborough the Artist, and the Tailor.
- Sir David Wilkie and the Baby.
- Man Defined Somewhat in the Linnæan Manner.
- Addison and Steele on some of the Peculiarities of the Natural History Collectors of the day.
- MONKEYS.
- The Gorilla and its Story.
- Mr Mitchell on a Young Chimpanzee.
- Lady Anne Barnard pleads for the Baboons.
- S. Bisset and his Trained Monkeys.
- Lord Byron's Pets.
- The Ettrick Shepherd's Monkey.
- The Findhorn Fisherman and the Monkey.
- The French Marquis and his Monkey.
- The Mandrill and George the Fourth.
- The Young Lady's Pet Monkey and her Parrot.
- Monkeys Poor Relations.
- Mrs Colin Mackenzie observes Apes at Simla.[21]
- The Aye-Aye (Chiromys Madagascariensis).
- BATS.
- Captain Cook's Sailor and His Description of a Fox-Bat.
- Fox-Bats (Pteropus).
- Dr Mayerne and His Balsam of Bats.
- HEDGEHOG.
- Southey and his Critics.
- MOLE.
- The Mole and King William.
- BEARS.
- An Austrian General and a Bear.[30]
- Byron's Bear at Cambridge.
- Charles Dickens on Bears' Grease and its Producers.
- A Bearable Pun.
- Shaved Bear.
- The Polar Bear.
- Nelson and the Polar Bear.
- A Clever Polar Bear.
- Captain Ommaney and the Polar Bear.
- RACCOON.
- BADGER.
- Hugh Miller and the Badger-Baiting in the Canongate.
- The Laird of Balnamoon and the Brock.
- FERRET.
- Collins and the Rat-catchers grip of his Ferrets.
- POLE-CAT.
- Fox and the Pole-Cat.—(Poll-cat.)[46]
- DOGS.
- Bishop Blomfield bitten by a Dog.
- "Puppies never See till they are Nine Days Old."
- Mrs Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush.
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., and his dog "Speaker."
- Lord Byron and his dog Boatswain.
- "Perchance"—a Lady's reason for so naming her Dog.
- Collins the Artist and his dog "Prinny"—a model of "a model."
- The Soldier and the Mastiff.
- Bark and Bite.
- Mrs Drew and the Two Dogs. (a curiously near approach to moral perception.)
- The Difference of Exchange.—"Dog-cheap."
- Gainsborough and his Wife and their Dogs.
- Sir William Gell's Dog.
- Elizabeth, the last Duchess of Gordon, and the Wolf-dog Kaiser.
- Frederick the Great and his Italian Greyhounds.
- The Dog and the French Murderers. (an occurrence in the spring of 1837.)
- Robert Hall and the Dog.
- A Queen and her Lap-dog.
- The Clever Dog that belonged to the Hunters of Polmood.
- The Irish Clergyman and the Dogs.
- Washington Irving and the Dog.
- Douglas Jerrold and his Dog.
- Sheridan and the Dog.
- Charles Lamb and his Dog.
- French Dogs, time of Louis XI.—History of his dog "Relais" by Louis XII.
- Martin Luther observes a Dog at Lintz.
- The Poor Dog at the Grotta del Cane.
- Dog, a Postman and Carrier.
- Dog-matic.
- General Moreau and his Greyhound.
- A Duke of Norfolk and his Spaniels.
- Lord North and the Dog.
- Perthes derives Hints From his Dog.
- Peter the Great and his favourite dog Lisette.
- The Light Company's Poodle and Sir F. Ponsonby.
- Admiral Rodney and his dog Loup.
- Ruddiman and his dog Rascal.
- Sheridan on the Dog-Tax.
- Sydney Smith dislikes Dogs. an ingenious way of getting rid of them.
- Sydney Smith on Dogs.[97]
- Sydney Smith's "Newfoundland Dog that breakfasted on Parish Boys."
- Southey on Dogs.
- Dog, a Good Judge of Elocution.
- Cowper's dog Beau and the Water-Lily. illustrated by the story of as intelligent a dog.
- Horace Walpole's pet dog Rosette.
- Arrival of Tonton, a pet dog, to Walpole.—Tonton does not understand English.
- Horace Walpole.—Death of his dog Tonton.
- Archbishop Whately and his Dogs.
- Sir David Wilkie could not see a Pun.—"A Dog-Rose."
- Ulysses and his Dog.
- WOLF.
- Polson and the last Scottish Wolf.
- FOX.
- An Enthusiastic Fox-Hunting Surgeon.[113]
- Fox-Hunting.
- Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus).
- JACKAL.
- Jackal and Tiger.
- CATS.
- Jeremy Bentham and his pet Cat "Sir John Langborn."
- Bisset and his Musical Cats.
- Constant, Chateaubriand, and the Cat.
- Liston the Surgeon and his Cat.
- The Banker Mitchell's Antipathy to Kittens.
- DONE INTO ENGLISH.
- Sir Walter Scott's Visit to the Black Dwarf.—David Ritchie's Cat.
- Archbishop Whately's Anecdote of the Cat that used to Ring the Bell.
- TIGER AND LION.
- Bussapa, the Tiger-slayer, and the Tiger.
- John Hunter and the Dead Tiger.
- Tigers.
- Lion and Tiger.
- Androcles and the Lion.
- Sir George Davis and the Lion
- Canova's Lions and the Child.
- Admiral Napier and the Lion in the Tower.
- Old Lady and the Beasts on the Mound.
- SEALS.
- Dr Adam Clarke on Shetland Seals.
- Dr Edmonston on Shetland Seals.
- The Walrus.
- KANGAROOS.
- Kangaroo Cooke.
- THE TIGER-WOLF.
- SQUIRREL: ARCTIC LEMMING.
- Pets of some of the Revolutionary Butchers. A Squirrel.
- Arctic Voyager and the Lemming.
- RATS AND MICE.
- The Duke of Wellington and the Musk-rat.
- Lady Eglintoun and the Rats.
- General Douglas and the Rats.
- Hanover Rats.
- Irishman Employed Shooting Rats.
- James Watt and the Rat's Whiskers.
- The Poet Gray compares the Poet-Laureate to a Rat-catcher.
- Jeremy Bentham and the Mice.
- Burns and the Field Mouse.
- TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING UP HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, NOVEMBER 1785.
- Destructive Field Mice.
- The Baron Von Trenck and the Tame Mouse in Prison.
- Alexander Wilson and the Mouse.
- HARES, RABBITS, GUINEA-PIG.
- William Cowper on his Hares.
- Hairs or Hares!
- S. Bisset and his trained Hare and Turtle.
- A Family of Rabbits all Blind of one Eye.
- Thomas Fuller on Norfolk Rabbits.
- Dr Chalmers and the Guinea-Pig.
- SLOTH.
- Reverend Sydney Smith on the Sloth.
- THE GREAT ANT-EATER.
- RHINOCEROS AND ELEPHANT.
- The Lord Keeper Guilford and his Visit to the Rhinoceros in the City of London.[188]
- The Elephant and his Trunk.
- Sir Richard Phillips and Jelly made of Ivory Dust.—A Vegetarian taken in.
- J. T. Smith and the Elephant.
- The Elephant and the Tailor.
- Dr Johnson alluded to as "an Elephant."
- Elephant's Skin.
- FOSSIL PACHYDERMATA.
- Cuvier and the Fossil.
- SOW.
- The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa).
- The River Pig, or Painted Pig of the Camaroon.[200]
- S. Bisset and his Learned Pig.
- Quixote Bowles fond of Pigs.
- On Jekyll nearly thrown down by a very small Pig.
- Good Enough for a Pig.
- The Countryman's Criticism on the Pigs in Gainsborough's Picture of the Girl and Pigs.
- Hook and the Litter of Pigs.
- Jests about Swine.
- Pigs and Silver Spoon.
- Sydney Smith on Beautiful Pigs. definition of beauty by a utilitarian.
- Joseph Sturge, when a boy, and the Pigs.
- HORSE.
- Bell-Rock Horse.
- Burke and the Horse.
- David Garrick and his Horse.
- Bernard Gilpin's Horses Stolen and Recovered.[220]
- The Herald and George III.'s Horse.
- Rowland Hill and his Horse at Dunbar.
- A Saying of Rowland Hill's.
- Holcroft on the Horse.
- A Joke of Lord Mansfield's about a Horse.
- General Sir John Moore and his Horse at the Battle of Corunna.
- Neither Horses nor Children can explain their Complaints.
- Horses with Names.
- "Old Jack" of Waterloo Bridge.
- Sydney Smith and his Horses.
- Judge Story and the Names he gave his Horses.
- Wordsworth on Cruelty to Horses in Ireland.
- Use of Tail.—Short-Tailed and Long-Tailed Horses.
- ASS AND ZEBRA.
- Collins and the Old Donkey of Odell, Cowper's Messenger at Olney.
- Gainsborough kept an Ass.
- Irishman on the Ramsgate Donkeys.
- Ass's Foal.
- Ass.
- Warren Hastings and the Refractory Donkey.
- Northcote, the Royal Academician, an Angel at an Ass.
- Sydney Smith's accomplished Donkey, with Francis Jeffrey on his Back.
- Sydney Smith on the Sagacity of the Ass; a Lady scarcely so wise as one.
- Asses' Duty Free!
- Thackeray and the Egyptian Donkey.
- Best to let Mules have their own Way.
- Zebra.—"Un âne rayée." a frenchman's "double-entendre."
- CAMEL.
- Captain William Peel, R.N. Remarks on Camels.
- A Captain in the Royal Navy Measures the Progress of "the Ship of the Desert."
- Lord Metcalfe on a Camel when a Boy.
- STAGS AND GIRAFFE.
- Earl of Dalhousie and the ferocious Stag.
- The French Count and the Stag.
- Venison Fat.—Reynolds and the Gourmand.
- Stag-trench at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.
- Giraffe.
- SHEEP AND GOATS.
- How many Legs has a Sheep?
- Goethe on Roos's Etchings of Sheep.
- Lord Cockburn and the Sheep.
- Woolsack.
- Sandy Wood and his Pets, a Sheep and a Raven.
- General Carnac and his She-goat.
- John Hunter and the Shawl-Goat. hunter's method of introducing strange animals peacefully to others in his menagerie.
- Commodore Keppel "beards" the Dey of Algiers.—A Goat.
- CALVES AND KINE.
- A Great Calf.
- Rather too much of a Good Thing.—Veal ad nauseam.
- Adam Clarke and his Bullock Pat.
- Samuel Foote and the Cows Pulling the Bell of Worcester College Chapel.
- The General's Cow.
- Gilpin's Love of the Picturesque carried out.—A Reason for keeping Three Cows.
- King James on a Cow getting over the Border.
- Duke of Montague and his Hospital for old Cows and Horses.
- Philip IV. of Spain in the Bull-ring.
- Sydney Smith and his Cattle.—His "Universal Scratcher."
- Rev. Augustus Toplady on the Future State of Animals.
- Right Honourable William Windham, M.P., on the Feelings of a Baited Bull.
- WHALES.
- Whalebone.
- Very like a Whale.
- Christopher North on the Whale.
- INDEX.
- THE END.
- FOOTNOTES:
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