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Part 8

Heads and Tales · Adam White — chapter 8 of 73 · ~175 words · public domain

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THE GREAT ANT-EATER (with a Plate) 225

ELEPHANT 229

Lord Clive--Elephant or Equivalent? 230

Canning on the Elephant and his Trunk 232

Sir R. Phillips and Jelly made of Ivory Dust 233

J. T. Smith and the Elephant 234

Sydney Smith on the Elephant and Tailor 235

Elephant's Skin--a teacher put down 236

FOSSIL PACHYDERMATA 236

Cuvier's Enthusiasm over Fossils 236

SOW 238

"There's a hantle o' miscellaneous eatin' aboot a Pig" 238

"Pig-Sticking at Chicago" 238

Monument to a Pig at Luneberg 239

WILD BOAR (with a Plate) 239

THE RIVER PIG (with a Plate) 245

S. Bisset and his Learned Pig 250

Quixote Bowles fond of Pigs 251

On Jekyll's treading on a small Pig 251

Good enough for a Pig 251

Gainsborough's Pigs 252

Theodore Hook and the Litter of Pigs 253

Lady Hardwicke's Pig--her Bailiff 253

Pigs and Silver Spoon 253

Sydney Smith on Beautiful Pigs 254

Joseph Sturge, when a boy, and the Pigs 255

RHINOCEROS 229

The Lord Keeper Guildford and the Rhinoceros in the City of London 230

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