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Animals and grass--Travellers in the elephant grass--Enemies in Britain--Cactus _versus_ rats and wild asses--Angora kids _v._ acacia--The Wait-a-bit thorn--Palm roots and snails--Wild yam _v._ pig--Larch _v._ goat--Portuguese and English gorse--Hawthorn _v._ rabbits--Briers, brambles, and barberry--The bramble loop and sick children or ailing cows--Briers of the wilderness--Theophrastus and Phrygian goats--Carline near the Pyramids--Calthrops--Tragacanth--Hollies and their ingenious contrivances--How thorns and spines are formed--Tastes of animals.