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The next cut shows you a coachman,
as that class of people appeared soon

 

A COACHMAN OF THE OLDEN TIME.

after the Restoration. If such a looking
man should make his appearance in our
streets in these days, I am not sure but
he would have an invitation to exhibit
himself in the museum. But his stuffed
boots, his odd-looking hat, to say no-
thing about his coat and pantaloons,
were regarded as quite in good taste, in
the time of the second Charles. How
fashion rules over taste!

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Instinct of Animals.

ERHAM quotes Olaus, in his ac-
count of Norway, as_ having
himself witnessed the fact of a
fox dropping the end of its tail

among the rocks on the sea-shore, to
catch the crabs below, and hauling up
and devouring such as laid hold of it.
On our own sea coast, rats also have
been known to add a new dish to their
dietary, by taking crabs; though it is
not easy to imagine how the capture is

THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

effected, and certainly it is not by angling
with the same pensile organ. On the
credit of several persons, however, it is
known that rats have skilfully employed

their tails in drawing oil through the

narrow neck of a jar, when unable to
reach it in any other manner. Mr. Mur
ray observed a dormouse to dip its tail
into a dish of milk, and then carry it,
smeared with the fluid, to its mouth;
and similar ingenuity has been witnessed

‘in its conveyance of water, when the
‘little creature could not otherwise ob-

tain a supply. The modes employed by
dogs of different races in capturing and
devouring the crab, and especially that
pugnacious species, the velvet crab (Por-
tunus puber,) well illustrate the experi-
ence which has become propagated in
the breed over the ignorance of the un-
initiated. On the first discovery of the
prey, a terrier runs in to seize it, and is
immediately and severely bitten in the
nose. But a sedate Newfoundland dog
of my acquaintance proceeds more s0-
berly in his work: he lays his paw on it,
to arrest it in its escape; then, tumbling
it over, he bares his teeth, and seizing it
with the mouth, throws the crab aloft;
it falls upon the stones, the shell is
cracked beyond redemption, and then
the dainty dish is devoured at leisure.—
Couch’s Illustrations of Instinct.

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«A zrrrte boy on his death-bed,
urging his father to repentance, said,
‘Father, I am going to heaven; what
shall I tell Jesus is the reason why you
won't love him!’ Before the weeping
father could answer, the child had fallen
asleep in Jesus.”