Word: carnivorae
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...consider them in order, taking the lowest class, the Carnivora, first. This class comprises all proctors of prey, and it is indeed a numerous one. Its habits are strange, and form a very interesting study, and that you may know them the better, I will mention a few of their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind...
...divide all proctors into three great classes, - the Carnivora, the Ungulates, and the Anthropoids, - and these divisions are based, not on my own observations alone, but on those of the many...