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96 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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XIX.—EBUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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* XII. THE PI/UM. Fkom the wave-hollowed...
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The Jackal Jackals Are Very Numerous, No...
It remained here till the morning , followed its master to the cemeteryand lay down on the During eiht days it refused
food , ; when turned out of grave the cemetery . it cam g e and lay again upon any _, the tomb . Sometimes it scratched the ground , put its mouth to it ,,
howled as if to call the deceased , and , repelling every consolation , died upon the very grave .
A MONKEY AND ITS MASTER . During several yearsa large monkey lived at an innkeeper ' s
near the Place _d'Isly . , The man and the beast were very friendly . If anybody feigned to strike the manthe animal grew angry , and
endeavored to defend him . It did not , permit a dog to fawn on its masteryet one day itself bit him on the hand . Erysipelas was the
consequence , of the bite , which soon took a dangerous character . During the illness the monkey refused to abandon the bed of its
master . The latter showing his swollen arm , said to it , " Look , Jaka , thou art the cause of my death . " The monkey seemed to understand
these words and what it had done , for it became more and moresorrowfulseemed also to feel remorseand died some days after
the burial , of its master . We have in our , recollection several other examples of animalsdogshorsesparrots & cwhich died of
sorrow for having lost , their , masters _, ; also some , , examples of real suicides by animals . But we must bring this fertile and interesting
subject to a close , assuring the traveller that Algiers possesses many
attractions to the naturalist and man of science . B ., M . D .
96 Fruits In Their Season.
96 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
Xix.—Ebuits In Their Season.
XIX . —EBUITS IN THEIR SEASON . ( Conclusion of the Series . )'
* Xii. The Pi/Um. Fkom The Wave-Hollowed...
* XII . THE PI / UM . Fkom the wave-hollowed cavern in the cliffto the Cathedral of St .
Peter ' s ; from the wild gorilla of the woods , , to the thorough English gentleman ; such are the analogues that present themselves when we
would think of illustrations of progress equivalent to the stride from the sloe to the greengage—from Nature ' s thorny stunted busli , with
its puny leaves and harsh , insignificant , berry-like produce , to Art's shapely tree , with broad ample foliage and large luscious fruit , fair
child of human care and culture . Yet , the Adam of the race , the sloe—without whichif the theory of development be truewe
,, , should" have had no greengage , —claims the first attention in a notice of this tribethe first favorites of autumnwhose fleshy drupes form
so nicely gradu , ated a link between the , juicy berries of summer , and those substantial pommes which accompany us into winter .
Theplums , as a family , are native to the greater part of Europe , and
« ome parts of Asia , Africa , and America ; but the only member
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/24/
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