Volume 3

Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland ... First[-fourth] series.

  • Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880.
Date:
1900
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Curiosities of natural history / by Francis T. Buckland ... First[-fourth] series. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE The Traveller’s Bath . .111 Dangers from Hippopotami 112 Tossed by a Hippopotamus 113 Baby Hippopotami at Paris 114 Hough Dentistry . . . .115 Chunie mad with Toothache 116 An animated Mountain . .117 The Elephant at Exeter ’Change 118 Protracted suffering . . .119 Execution of Chunie . . . 120 The Death of Chunie . .121 The Wild Ducks’Pond . .122 Horace “ out of sorts ” . .123 A Fresh-air Bath. . . .124 Aldermaston Park . . .125 The Decoy 126 The Alarm 127 A Lesson in Deportment . 128 A tempting Invitation de- clined 129 A Shot at the Wild Ducks . 130 “Something to lean his back against” 131 Out after Ducks .... 132 In for a Ducking .... 133 Cow-boys, Screech-owls, and Herons 134 The Dawn of Day . . . 135 Giving them “ Toko ” . . 136 Teal and Widgeon . . .137 The Ambush signalled . .138 The King of the Pond . .139 A “ Crop ” of Acorns . . 140 Shooting a Jack . . . .141 Shots stopped by Water . 142 Jack-fishing on the Avon . 143 A Jibbing Mare .... 144 PAGE Prospects of Sport . . .145 A Giant Jack 14C Buried Treasure . . . .147 Waiting till he’s Wanted . 148 A Mud Bath 149 How to keep a Cool Head . 150 Telescopic vision in Jack . 151 A singular Advertisement . 152 How the Eels bite. . . .153 The vertebrae of Eels. . .154 Strolling Actors . . . .155 Talent, Care, and Poverty . 156 Unrequited Industry . .157 Bringing down the House . 158 Sevenpence halfpenny among Nine 159 The Infant Cure . . . .160 Comage under Difficulties . 161 Taking a Header . , . .162 How to preserve Nets . .163 Ducks versus Trout . . .164 Dressing a Wound . . .165 Irish Bacon 166 ’Merican Pigs 167 Butchers and Bacon-dealers 168 Bird-catchers 169 “The Stale” 170 Bird-lime 171 The Call-bird 172 The Chaffinch’s Song . .173 The young Pretenders . .174 Nightingale Catching . .175 A Cure for Numb Lips . . 176 The Nightingale’s Note . . 177 The Vauxhall Nightingalo 17 8 How Nightingales are Trapped 179 Poetical Allusions . . .180