Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
When, on the 21st March 1890, under the auspices of the Hon. Sir Andrew Scoble, the Legislative Council of India passed an Act (XI. of 1890) for the prevention of cruelty to animals, some surprise was expressed in England that legislation should be necessary for a people who h...
In Europe it is a half-forgotten legend that flocks and herds ranked first among early forms of wealth, and it is only in dissertations on the origin of money we are reminded th...
8. CHAPTER VIII"_Johnson.--'Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sens...
2. CHAPTER II"Birds, companions more unknown Live beside us, but alone; Finding not, do all they can, Passage from their souls to man. Kindness we bestow, and praise, Laud their plumage, gre...
9. CHAPTER IXThe Elephant has always been one of the wonders of the world, amazing in his aspect and full of delightful and surprising qualities. Nor does familiarity lessen his hold upon th...
11. CHAPTER XIThat the dog has served for ages throughout the East as a byword of loathing and contempt is of itself no hanging matter so far as the real character of the animal is concerned,...
3. CHAPTER III"His hide was very mangy, and his face was very red, And ever and anon he scratched with energy his head. His manners were not always nice, but how my spirit cried To be an artl...
16. CHAPTER XVIMore has been said and written on Indian art than is justified by a right appreciation of its qualities and defects. In architecture alone can it be said to claim the highest di...
10. CHAPTER X"When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our Kafilas wind through the Khyber pass. Lean are the camels but fat the frails, Light are the purses but heavy the bales, As the sn...
15. CHAPTER XVThe serpent has swallowed up the rights of the rest of the reptiles in Indian lore and talk. As Adi Sesha Seshnâg or Ananta, the nâg or cobra is a sacred eternal creature on who...
1. CHAPTER IWhen, on the 21st March 1890, under the auspices of the Hon. Sir Andrew Scoble, the Legislative Council of India passed an Act (XI. of 1890) for the prevention of cruelty to ani...
4. CHAPTER IV"'Twas when the rain fell steady and the ark was pitched and ready, And Noah got his orders for to take the bastes below: He haled them all together by the hide and horn and fea...
5. CHAPTER V"There is no house possessing a goat but a blessing abideth thereon; and there is no house possessing three goats but the angels pass the night there praying," said Muhammad. An...
7. CHAPTER VIIMany Europeans speak of the Indian buffalo, which is the familiar buffalo of Egypt and Italy, as the "water buffalo," from its predilection for wallowing in swamps. "Yoke a buff...
17. CHAPTER XVIIAll nature fights. We are nowadays familiar with false phrases such as "unnatural strife" and the like, used in denunciation of one of the central instincts of life, but at hear...
14. CHAPTER XIVIndia,--land of waning wonders,--has a great name for the training of animals, a pursuit in which the people are popularly believed to attain marvellous success by reason of spe...
18. CHAPTER XVIII"O Hassan! Saving Allah, there is none More strong than Eblis. Foul marsh lights he made To wander and perplex us,--errant stars, Red, devil-ridden meteors bringing plague-- Des...
12. CHAPTER XII"If you want to know what a tiger is like, look at a cat; if you want to know what a thug is like, look at a butcher," is a common Hindu saying, but only half of it is quite tru...
13. CHAPTER XIII"The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies; They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock's brother, Resting after their labours, Each in stall with his neighbou...