The Project Gutenberg eBook of, Heads And Tales, compiled

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White, Adam, 1817-1879

Title

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.

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Produced by Julia Miller, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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English

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QL: Science: Zoology

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Mammals

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25918

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Release Date

June 28, 2008

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HEADS AND TALES; — OR,
2. 2.ADAM WHITE, — LATE ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.HEADS AND TALES.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.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 ).
8. 8.BATS. — Captain Cook's Sailor and His Description of a Fox-Bat. — Fox-Bats ( Pteropus ). — Dr Mayerne and His Balsam of Bats.
9. 9.HEDGEHOG. — Southey and his Critics.
10. 10.MOLE. — The Mole and King William.
11. 11.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.
12. 12.RACCOON.
13. 13.BADGER. — Hugh Miller and the Badger-Baiting in the Canongate. — The Laird of Balnamoon and the Brock.
14. 14.FERRET. — Collins and the Rat-catchers grip of his Ferrets.
15. 15.POLE-CAT. — Fox and the Pole-Cat.—(Poll-cat.) [46]
16. 16.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.
17. 17.WOLF. — Polson and the last Scottish Wolf.
18. 18.FOX. — An Enthusiastic Fox-Hunting Surgeon. [113] — Fox-Hunting. — Arctic Fox ( Vulpes lagopus ).
19. 19.JACKAL. — Jackal and Tiger.
20. 20.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.
21. 21.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.
22. 22.SEALS. — Dr Adam Clarke on Shetland Seals. — Dr Edmonston on Shetland Seals. — The Walrus.
23. 23.KANGAROOS. — Kangaroo Cooke.
24. 24.THE TIGER-WOLF.
25. 25.SQUIRREL: ARCTIC LEMMING. — Pets of some of the Revolutionary Butchers. A Squirrel . — Arctic Voyager and the Lemming.
26. 26.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.
27. 27.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.
28. 28.SLOTH. — Reverend Sydney Smith on the Sloth.
29. 29.THE GREAT ANT-EATER.
30. 30.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.
31. 31.FOSSIL PACHYDERMATA. — Cuvier and the Fossil.
32. 32.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.
33. 33.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.
34. 34.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."
35. 35.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.
36. 36.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.
37. 37.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.
38. 38.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.
39. 39.WHALES. — Whalebone. — Very like a Whale. — Christopher North on the Whale.
40. 40.INDEX. — THE END. — FOOTNOTES:

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