. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. animals filling the whole wood with their stench, degree of fear, and if one throws them into a large The cause of this assemblage were four-footed little vessel of water or into a small stream they squeak , which occasionally dropped and growl very angrily and try to regain the dry from heaven during a sudden thunderstorm and land as soon as possible. They often betray them- ram; whether they had been wafted from distant selves, for frequently, as they sit in their holes parts to the place of their discharge
. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. animals filling the whole wood with their stench, degree of fear, and if one throws them into a large The cause of this assemblage were four-footed little vessel of water or into a small stream they squeak , which occasionally dropped and growl very angrily and try to regain the dry from heaven during a sudden thunderstorm and land as soon as possible. They often betray them- ram; whether they had been wafted from distant selves, for frequently, as they sit in their holes parts to the place of their discharge to the earth or so well hidden that they certainly would not be noticed by a passer-by, the appearance of a human being excites them to such a degree that they can not remain silent. A loud grunting and squeaking, after the fashion of Guinea Pigs, greets the intruder into their domain, as if they wished to forbid his treading on their ground. It is only when they are abroad that they flee from human approach, hurrying to one of their innumer- able holes, and secreting themselves in it. Once in, there they stay, not stir- ring or trying to escape, ^^^^^ -- '*e. '«=as^^«i but leaving it to fate, as to ^^^^^^^^^^^^ whether or not they will FIELD MOUSE OE CAMPAGNOL. The little Rodents so amusTiigly"depicted in this illustration are be killed or taken away. so numerous in many parts of Europe and Asia that they work sad havoc in the fields, and frequently destroy a The COUrageOUS little large part of the crops. (Arvicola arvalis.) fcllowS fumishcd me COn- produced in the clouds, was not known. Other siderable amusement. I never could help provok- authors simply copy the account of the bishop, and ing them. Once they are driven to bay, they never Linnaeus was the first who truly described the Lem- think of surrender. If a boot be held out to one of ming (in his Swedish treatise of 1740) according to them, the animal will bite into it, as it would into a nature and with
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