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92 7\tt. It consists of predacious animals, whose sharp-hooked claws, and sharp fore-teeth, sufficiently bespeak their habits. They are all endowed with a keen sight, and have strength and agility combined, to dart suddenly upon their prey, and to retain it with a firm grasp. Pup. How are they distinguished by their teeth 2 Tut. By having six sharpish fore-teeth in the upper jaw, and a single tusk. In general there are two canine teeth in each jaw. This order includes several genera, as the dog, the cat, the bear, the seal, the mole, the hedge-hog, and others. Pup. But you have sai«l nothiug about the lion. the tiger, the wolf, the hyaena, and others, which are sarely included among wild animals. - Tut. The lion and the tiger are included in the genus Felis, or cat: aud the wolf and liyaeua, brlonging to the Camis, or dog genus. Pup. How is the fourth order distinguished, and what does it influde: Tut. It is haracterized by two sharp fore-teeth in each jaw and it comprehends the beaver, the rat, the squirrel, the hare, and some others. Pup. What animals are incinded in the fifth order * Tut. It includes those creatures that we usually denominate cattle: such are the ox, the sheep, the goat, attelope, camel. &c. The character of this order is, that they lave no upper fore-teeth, and eight under fore teeth. They chew the cud ; that is, they first receive the food ju, a large cavity, not its proper stomach, w here it is retained, and brought up again in small portions into the Inouth, chewed at leisure, and then swallowed into the proper digesting stomach. Pup. Have mot these divided hoofs ? Tut. They have: they are in general very inos. fensive creatures; and when excited to acts of violence, they do it by butting with their heads, which are hard, and generally furnished with horns: th muscles of their neck are remarkably strong. -