Q. What sort of animal is the bear?
A. An awkward, but dangerous one.

Q. What makes the bear particularly fierce ? A Being bereaved of her whelps.-This is several times mentioned in the Bible.

Q. How many wicked children did two shebears once tear in pieces?

A. Forty-two.

Q. What had these children done?
A. Mocked the prophet Elijah.

Q. How are badgers' skins mentioned in the Bible?

A. In the making of the Tabernacle.

Q. What sort of creature does the ferret mentioned in the Bible mean?

A. A noxious kind of lizard.

Q. Where does the mole dwell?
A. Under the ground.

Q. What does Isaiah say of idols?

A. A time shall come when they shall be cast to the moles and to the bats. (Is. ii. 20.) Q. Was it considered unclean to eat the mouse?

A. Very much so.

Q. What did these little creatures do to

corn?

A. They destroyed it.

Q. What is the coney?

A. A kind of rabbit, living among rocks.

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Q. Was the hare unclean to the Jews?
A. Yes.

Q. What sort of creature is the wolf?
A. Of the dog kind,-sly, savage, and cruel.
Q. What tribe of Israel was compared to a
wolf?

A. Benjamin.

Q. To what does Jesus compare false prophets?

A. Wolves in sheeps' clothing.

Q. What do some people suppose the unicorn to mean?

A. The rhinoceros.

Q. Who speaks of the behemoth; and what animal is it thought to mean?

A. Job. Some think the buffalo.

Q. What animal was held in great abhorrence by the Jews for its filthy habits?

A. The swine.

Q. In hot countries, what disease does eating its flesh often produce?

A. Leprosy.

Q. Who was sent into the fields to feed swine?

A. The prodigal son.

Q. Who sacrificed a swine on God's altar? A. Antiochus Epiphanes.

Q. Who permitted devils to enter a herd of swine?

A. The Lord Jesus.

Q. What sort of animal is the fox, or jackal?
A. Very sly, and incapable of affection.

Q. Who caught 300 jackals, and, tying firebrands to their tails, sent them among his enemes' corn?

A. Samson.

Q. What did the Lord Jesus call Herod ?
A. "That fox."

Q. What sort of noise do jackals make?
A. A dreadful wailing and howling.

Q. Is the dog liked in the East?

A. No; he is despised.

Q. Who called the Gentiles dogs?
A. The Jews.

Q. What did the poor woman say to the Lord Jesus about this?

A. "The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table."

Q. Was the Lord Jesus pleased?

A. Yes. He praised her faith, and healed her child.

Q. Whose blood was licked up by dogs?
A. Ahab's.

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Who was eaten by dogs?

A. The bad queen Jezebel.

Q. To whom are dogs compared ?

A. The wicked, in many parts of the Bible.

Q. What are said to be without the gates of heaven?

A. Dogs.

Q. What does this mean?

A. Bad people.

Q. What is the last animal named in the Bible?

A. The dog.

END OF ANIMALS.

BIRDS OF THE BIBLE.

I THINK there is almost as much said in the Bible about birds as of animals; and quite as many useful lessons to be learnt from their habits and instinct as from four-footed creatures. As among the beasts there was a clean and an unclean kind, so among the birds there was the same; and the law of not eating the blood was given by God for both. There are innocent and gentle birds, which feed on plain food; and there are what are called carnivorous birds, which devour flesh as voraciously as even the jackal or wolf. Birds, like beasts, were created for God's glory. (Psalm cxlviii. 10.) They also received names from Adam (Gen. ii. 19), and were placed under his subjection. (See Gen. i. 30; i. 26.) The Second Commandment forbids the worship of birds, but many heathen nations disobeyed this law, and brought down God's heavy judgments upon them in consequence.