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Answers to Questions on Natural History

1. St. Matthew : chap. xvii., verse 27.-1. " My kingdom for a horse ! " : Shakespeare's Rickard III.;- Act V.-3. Ode to. a Favourite Cat drowned in a -Tub. Of Goldfish : Thomas-Gray.--4. Lady Clare : Tennyson. 'b. The Cheshire Cat : Alice in Wonder- land (Lewis Carroll).-6. The squirrel : Ode to Autumn (Thomas Hood).--7. The spider : Proverbs, Chap. xxx., verse 28.-8. " Roland ," : " How they brought the GoodNews " (R. Browning). 9: The Jackdaw of Rheims : Ingold,sby. Legends.-10. " The

unwieldy toad " Loving and Liking" (Wordsworth).--11-... Elizabeth Barrett Browning's pet dog.-12. The heron : Hia- watha's Departure, xxii. (Longfellow).-13. " Oh velvet bee, you're a dusty. fellow " " Ghild Poems " (Jean•Ingelow).