There was an alarming suggestion of intimacy anyway in a midnight scene with a tailless dog, a boy clad in your own night-shirt--and an inferential person with an eye by the name of Sweeny.
To-day in Holland we see boys flying the English bow-kite and the common kite with crossed sticks, both of which require tails, and by the side of themtailless kites imported from the Dutch colonies in Java.
Generally speaking the apes, or the tailless monkeys, are more quiet in disposition than the others, and hence they are the easiest to teach and control.
The tailless monkeys are more hardy than the tailed ones, but even they are not proof against the rigors of the north.
So she sat and dolefully mused, with the tailless cat, that gift of a friendly gaoler at Peckton prison, purring on the rug before her, unconsciously personifying an irrevocable past and a future emptied of delight.
As soon as he was out of the room, the tailless cat emerged from under the sofa.
It was certainly an odd coincidence, perhaps nothing more, but a very odd coincidence, that George should have seen in the courtyard at Peckton Gaol no less than three tailless cats!
The tailless cats are still procurable in the Isle of Man, though many an unfortunate pussey with the tail cut off is palmed off as genuine on the unwary.
The real tailless breed are rather longer in the hind legs than the ordinary cat, and grow to a large size.
The tail kite will do for tandem, but as the tails are apt to get snarled, it is not so desirable as the tailless kind.
Could he mean the tailless Tom, born in the Isle of Man, and now supposed to be keeping guard against the incursions of rats and mice into my chambers in London?
Perfectly,' said I, in a maze of wonder at this deep solicitude in a tailless cat who had lost one foot and half an ear in some cruel trap.
The most suitable and most available objects of study in this class are the eggs of our indigenous amphibia, the taillessfrogs and toads, and the tailed salamander.
This reduction becomes easier if, after considering the gastrulation of the tailless amphibia (frogs and toads), we glance for a moment at that of the tailed amphibia, the salamanders.
In the tailless or anthropoid apes the number of metamera is much the same as in man, only differing by one or two; but it is much larger in the long-tailed apes and most of the other mammals.
African tale, [9] we find how it was the hyaena became tailless and earless.
They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin.
When fully developed, frogs have a short, tailless body, a large head, and four legs, the toes being frequently joined together by a membrane.
I previously mentioned the tailless race of Manx cats.
Tradition does not tell us how it happened that the descendants of the first tailless cat in the Isle of Man were able to increase and spread in such a manner as to form the dominant race in the island.
Zacharias’ cat, for tailless kittens occurred in several families produced by the same mother; but in other cases the possibility of the possession of innate taillessness by the father must be taken into account.
But we can easily imagine how it happened, when we learn thattailless cats are especially prized[300] in Japan, because people think that they are better mousers.
To this class belong the tailless cats which were shown at last year’s (1887) Meeting of the Association of German Naturalists, at Wiesbaden.
As to the first origin of the tailless Manx breed we know no more than about the origin of that remarkable race of cats with supernumerary toes, which E.
Entirely similar phenomena have been observed by Döderlein in the tailless cats which not infrequently occur in Japan.
The probability that all the tailless cats in Waldkirch are more or less distant descendants of that male cat almost amounts to certainty.
A clergyman, who lived for some time at Waldkirch, had married an English lady who possessed a tailless male Manx cat.
Tailless breeds of animals have been formed; among which may be mentioned the rumpless fowl, andtailless cats and dogs.
And the death of the Tailless Tyke is positively Homeric.
Dog and master have never been matched in a more sinister manner than Adam McAdam and the Tailless Tyke.
Perhaps they enjoyed all the more the visit to the tailless monkeys, that Dwight insisted upon later, where they did not expect to be learned, but only to look and laugh to their young hearts' content.
And I want to see the tailless monkeys," added Dwight, as he joined them.
Some great anatomists, as Cuvier and Meckel, believe that the tubercle one side of the hinder foot of the tailless Batrachians represents a sixth digit.
With animals and plants under domestication, when an organ disappears, leaving only a rudiment, the loss has generally been sudden, as with hornless and tailless breeds; and such cases may be ranked as inherited monstrosities.
The Manx cat is tailless and has long hind legs; Dr.
When tailless or hornless animals are crossed with perfect animals, it frequently, but by no means invariably, happens that the offspring are {93} either perfectly furnished with these organs or are quite destitute of them.
Salamanders correspond in development with the tadpoles or larvæ of the tailless Batrachians, and both possess to a large extent the power of regrowth; but not so the mature tailless Batrachians.
Similar facts could be given with respect totailless breeds of various animals.
In taillessdogs and cats a stump is left; but I do not know whether it includes at an early embryonic age rudiments of all the caudal vertebræ.
The larvæ or tadpoles of the tailless Batrachians, but not the adults,[37] are capable of reproducing lost members.
D, H) and intailless mammals, at a certain period of development, it degenerates and finally completely disappears.
This is the one serious defect of kites with tails, that they cannot adapt themselves to wind currents of varying intensities; whereas the tailless kites do so without difficulty.
The tailless kite, sent from the hands of a master, will fly in all winds.
He was misled in his earlier efforts at tailless kite-making by the example of the Malay kiter-flyers, who are reputed to be the most skilful in the world, and who cross the sticks much nearer the middle of the upright one.
Or, could natural selection explain the loss of the tail on the ground that all the monkeys with tails died off, while the tailless ones survived, and developed into human beings?
I have seen an allied, white, tailless breed from Turkey.
In two taillessfowls which I examined the oil-gland was aborted.
Games suitable to the occasion are played; among them pinning a tail to the picture of a tailless donkey fastened on the wall.
By the Bull that bought me," said Mowgli, with a bitter laugh, "it is the tailless one!
Mowgli could hear the voice of the tailless leader bidding his people hold on and kill out every wolf in Seeonee.
My tailless presumption, while waiting here, led me, indeed, to speak of thee.
There will now be many litters of little tailless red dogs, yea, with raw red stumps that sting when the sand is hot.
He ran cleanly, evenly, and springily; the tailless leader not five yards behind him; and the Pack tailing out over perhaps a quarter of a mile of ground, crazy and blind with the rage of slaughter.
And the Tailless Tyke, his tongue out and flanks heaving, crept and crawled and worked up to the opening, patient as he had never been before.
And with that the Tailless Tyke, Adam M'Adam's Red Wull, the Black Killer, went to his long home.
A little later, and he walks out of the inn, the Tailless Tyke at his heels.
At the order the Tailless Tyke shot gladly forward, and the leaders on the bridge as hastily back.
Tailless Tyke, who was lying at his master's feet.
His enemies said the Tailless Tyke was rough; not even Tammas denied he was ready.
The Tailless Tyke had already run up his fighting colors.
And a little farther in front was the Tailless Tyke, his back and neck like a new-shorn wheat-field, as he rumbled a vast challenge.
At that, with one last threat thrown at the' thousand souls he had held at bay for thirty minutes, the Tailless Tyke swung about and galloped after his lord.
To but one creature in the Daleland could they belong--"Th' Tailless Tyke.
He lavished the whole fondness of which his small nature appeared capable on the Tailless Tyke, for so the Dalesmen called Red Wull.
Not one of them all but had his score to wipe off against the Tailless Tyke; not one of them but was burning to join in, the battle once begun.
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