e Foster Mother, A 114

Strange Mouser, A 44

Strange Playmates 106

Strange Protector, A 124

Strange Rooks 130

Studying 8

T

Talking Parrot, A 146

Tame Colony, A 161

Tame Hares 132

Tame Seagull, The 122

Travellers 36

U

Usurper Punished, A 128

W

Watch Dog, The 90

Wise Ourang-Outang 136

Wrens Learning to Sing 140

I

ANIMAL CONCERTS

An abbot, a man of wit, and skilled in the making of new musical
instruments, was ordered by Louis XI., king of France, more in jest than
earnest, to procure him a concert of swines' voices. The abbot said that
the thing could doubtless be done, but it would cost a good deal of
money. The king ordered that he should have as much as he required for
the purpose. The abbot then contrived as strange a thing as ever was
seen. Out of a great number of hogs of various ages, which he got
together under a tent, or pavilion, covered with velvet, and before
which he had a table of wood painted with a certain number of keys, he
made an organical instrument, and as he played upon the keys with little
spikes which pricked the hogs, he made them cry in such order and
consonance that he highly delighted the king and all his company.

II

A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG

One of the magistrates in Harbor Grace, in Newfoundland, had an old dog
of the regular web-footed species peculiar to that island, who was in
the habit of carrying a lantern before his master at night, as steadily
as the most attentive servant could do, stopping short when his master
made a stop, and going ahead when he was ready to follow.

If his master was away from home, and the command was given "Go fetch
thy mas