Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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A Race for Life

". (111) same time; some of the animals are gen- outrun the fleetest horse or greyhound; erally stationed on watch. When these yet such is their extreme timidity and are tired, they give a kind of notice to shortness of breath, that they are soon such as have taken their rest, who in- caught. If they be only bitten by a dog, stantly rise and relieve the sentinels of they instantly fall down, and will not. the preceding hours.

By this means they again attempt to rise. In running, they often preserve themselves from the at- seem to incline on one side, and their tacks of wolves, and from the insidious fleetness is for a short time so astonishing stratagems of hunters. They are so that their feet appear scarcely to touch swift, that they are able for a while to the ground.

A Race for Life — from Museum of Wonders (1900)

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