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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Phœnix | 1 |
| Griffins and Unicorns | 4 |
| About Ants, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks | 12 |
| Dragons | 20 |
| The Story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel’s Mother | 33 |
| The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake | 43 |
| A Fox Tale | 49 |
| An Egyptian Snake Charmer | 55 |
| An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter | 61 |
| Pumas and Jaguars in South America | 84 |
| Mathurin and Mathurine | 98 |
| Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine | 102 |
| The Homes of the Vizcachas | 108 |
| Guanacos Living and Dying | 112 |
| In the American Desert | 117 |
| The Story of Jacko II | 128 |
| ‘Princess’ | 135 |
| The Lion and the Saint | 138 |
| The Further Adventures of ‘Tom’, a Bear, in Paris | 143 |
| Recollections of a Lion Tamer | 154 |
| Sheep Farming on the Border | 171 |
| When the World was Young | 177 |
| Bats and Vampires | 196 |
| The Ugliest Beast in the World | 200 |
| The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon | 206 |
| Greyhounds and their Masters | 224 |