where he was treated with care and tenderness, and fed with profusion.

He had every day four pounds of bread, twelve pints of wine, two buckets of porridge, with four or five pounds of bread, and two buckets of boiled rice, without reckoning what was given to him by visitors. Besides this, he had every day a sheaf of wheat to amuse himself; for, after he had eaten the ears, he made a kind of whip of straw, and used it to drive away the flies. He delighted in breaking the straw in small bits, which he did with great dexterity, with his trunk; and, as he was led to walk daily, he plucked the grass, and eat it.

An elephant in Adsmeer, which often passed through the market, always received from a certain herb woman a handful of greens. At length he was seized with a periodical fit of madness, broke his fetters, and ran wild through the market-place. He caused the greatest terror and confusion, trampling every thing under his feet. With the rest of the crowd, the poor herb woman took to flight, and in the hurry of the moment forgot a little child she had with her. The animal, recollecting the spot where his friend usually sat, took up the infant gently in his trunk, and placed it in safety on a neighbouring stall.

Another elephant in a fit of rage had killed his keeper. His wife, witness of this catastrophe, took her two children, and threw them at the feet of the still furious animal saying, Since thou hast killed my husband, take also my life, and that of my children. The elephant stopped short,

grew calm, and, as if he had been moved with regret and compassion, took with his trunk the largest of the children, placed it on his neck, adopted him for his leader, and would never after be mounted by any other

person.

At Achen, in the island of Sumatra, there was an elephant who was accustomed, as he passed along the side of the street, to reach his trunk in at the doors and windows, begging for fruit. One morning, as he was going to the river to be washed, with his rider on his back, he put his trunk into the window of a tailor. Instead of giving him what he wanted, the tailor pricked him with his needle.

The elephant seemed to take no notice of the affront, but went calmly on to the river and washed. After this, he disturbed the water with one of his fore feet, so as to make it muddy, and then sucked up a great quantity of it into his trunk. Passing quietly along the same side of the street, when arrived at the tailor's shop, he put in his trunk at the window, and spirted out the water with such prodigious force, that the offender and his journeymen were blown off the board, almost frightened out of their wits.

A painter was desirous of drawing an elephant at Versailles in an extraordinary attitude, which was with his trunk erect and his mouth open. The painter's boy, to make him remain in that position, threw fruits into his mouth. But when he frequently deceived him, making only an offer to throw the fruit, the elephant grew angry.

But as if understanding the cause of the deception, he turned his resentment upon the master; and taking a quantity of water in his trunk, spouted it over the paper, and completely ruined the drawing.

There exist several species of the Kanguroo, all of which are natives of New Holland. The principal of these is the Great Kanguroo, which measures nine feet in length, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, and when full grown, weighs two hundred pounds. The head and neck are very small, while the lower parts gradually expand to a very great size. The fore legs are hardly nineteen inches long, while the hinder ones,

which are perfectly bare and callous beneath, measure three feet seven inches.

The head bears some resemblance to that of the deer, having a mild and placid visage; the ears are moderately large and erect, the eyes full, and the mouth rather small. The general colour is a pale brown, inclining underneath to white. From the great difference in length, of the fore and hind legs, the pace of this animal consists in vast springs or bounds, which are said at times. to exceed twenty feet in length.

In a state of rest, it sits erect on the whole length of the hind feet, supporting itself by the base of the tail. This it sometimes uses as a weapon of defence, and it is of such prodigious strength, as to be able to break the leg of a man at a single blow. The female seldom produces more than one young one at a birth, which when first brought forth is not above an inch in length.

The Kanguroo may be rendered tame. "One of the largest Kanguroos I have seen," says Mr. Cunningham, "is domesticated, and a mischievous wag he is; creeping and snuffing cautiously towards a stranger, with such an innocently expressive countenance that roguery could never be suspected to exist under it. When he has attained what he thinks a sufficient introduction, he places his fore-paws on your shoulders, as if to caress you, and raising himself suddenly upon his tail, administers such a well put push with his hind legs, that it is two to one but he drives you heels over head! This is all done in what he considers facetious play, and with a

view of giving you a hint to examine your pockets, and see what sweetmeats you have got for him. If the door is ajar, he will gravely take his station behind your chair at meal time, giving you a gentle kick every now and then, if you fail to help him as well as yourself.”

After the elephant, the Rhinoceros is the most pow erful of animals. He is six or seven feet in height, twelve feet in length, and about as much in circumference. But though he resembles the elephant in bulk, he differs widely from that sagacious creature in his natural faculties and intelligence. He is superior to other animals only in strength, size, and an offensive and peculiar weapon which he carries upon his nose. This is a very