. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . tspray around. Deer often engage in a sham battle, or a trial of strength, bytwisting their horns together, and pushing for the mastery. Allanimals that pretend violence in their play, stop short of exer-cising it. The dog takes the greatest precaution not to injure byhis bite; and the ourang outang, in wrestling with his keeper,attempts to throw him, and makes feints of biting him. Someanimals carry out in their play the semblance of catching t
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . tspray around. Deer often engage in a sham battle, or a trial of strength, bytwisting their horns together, and pushing for the mastery. Allanimals that pretend violence in their play, stop short of exer-cising it. The dog takes the greatest precaution not to injure byhis bite; and the ourang outang, in wrestling with his keeper,attempts to throw him, and makes feints of biting him. Someanimals carry out in their play the semblance of catching theirprey; young cats, for instance, leap after every small and moving-object, even to the leaves strewed by the autumn wind ; they crouch, and steal forward ready forthe spring, the body quivering andthe tail vibrating with emotion, theybound on the moving leaf, and againwatch, and again spring forward atanother. Not only young cats rompwith each other, but young lions dothe same. Rengger saw young jagu-ars and cuguars playing with roundsubstances like kittens. Young bearssport with each other, and are said to play hide and seek withtheir HOME-SICKNESS. 243 Young lambs, as well as birds, col-lect together on the little hillocks andeminences in their pastures, racing,and sporting with each other in themost interesting manner. Birds of the Pie kind, are the anal-ogues of monkeys, full of mischief,play, and mimicry. There is a storytold of a tame magpie, which was seenbusily employed in a garden, gather-ing pebbles, and with much solemnity,and a studied air, dropping them intoa hole, about eighteen inches deep,made to receive a post. After drop-ping each stone, it cried, Currack !triumphantly, and set off for examining the spot a poor toadwas found in the hole, which the magpie was stoningamusement.
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