Part 11

OX 304

Irish Bulls 304

A great Calf! "The more he sucked the greater Calf he grew!" 304

Veal ad nauseam! too much of a good thing 304

James Boswell should confine himself to the Cow 305

Rev. Adam Clarke and his Bullock Pat 305

Samuel Foote and the Cows pulling the Bell of Worcester College 306

The General's Cow at Plymouth 308

Gilpin's Love of the Picturesque carried out--a reason for keeping three Cows 308

King James on a Cow getting over the Border 309

Duke of Montague and his Hospital for Old Cows and Horses 309

Philip IV. of Spain in the Bull-ring 310

Sydney Smith and his "Universal Scratcher" 311

Rev. Augustus Toplady on the Future State of Animals--the Rev. William Bull 312

Windham on the Feelings of a Baited Bull 313

WHALE 315

A Porpoise not at Home 315

Whalebone 315

"What's to become o' the puir Whales?" 316

Very like a Whale! 316

Christopher North on the Whale 316

FOOTNOTES:

There are many anecdotes in this book not included in this list, which gives however, the principal.

HEADS AND TALES.

MAN.

In this collection, like Linnæus, we begin with man as undoubtedly an animal, as opposed to a vegetable or mineral. Like Professor Owen, we are inclined to fancy he is well entitled to separate rank from even the Linnæan order, Primates, and to have more systematic honour conferred on him than what Cuvier allowed him. That great French naturalist placed man in a section separate from his four-handed order, Quadrumana, and, from his two hands and some other qualities, enrolled our race in an order, Bimana. Surely the ancients surpassed many modern naturalists of the Lamarckian school, who would derive him from an ourang, a chimpanzee, or a gorilla. One of them has nobly said--

"Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri."

Our own Sir William Hamilton, in a few powerful words has condensed what will ever be, we are thankful to suppose, the general idea of most men, be they naturalists or not, that mind and soul have much to distinguish us from every other animal:--