The Cat never mentioned by name in the canonical Scriptures, and only once in the Apocrypha--The Cat domesticated among the Egyptians, and trained in bird-catching--Neglected capabilities of the Cat--Anecdote of an English Cat that caught fish for her master--Presumed reason why the Scriptures are silent about the Cat--The Cat mentioned by Baruch 36 THE DOG. Antipathy displayed by Orientals towards the Dog, and manifested throughout the Scriptures--Contrast between European and Oriental Dogs--Habits of the Dogs of Palestine--The city Dogs and their singular organization--The herdsman's Dog--Various passages of Scripture--Dogs and the crumbs--Their numbers--Signor Pierotti's experience of the Dogs--Possibility of their perfect domestication--The peculiar humiliation of Lazarus--Voracity of the Wild Dogs--The fate of Ahab and Jezebel--Anecdote of a volunteer Watch-dog--Innate affection of the Dog towards mankind--Peculiar local instinct of the Oriental Dog--Albert Smith's account of the Dogs at Constantinople--The Dervish and his Dogs--The Greyhound--Uncertainty of the word 39 THE WOLF. Identity of the animal indisputable--Its numbers, past and present--The Wolf never mentioned directly--Its general habits--References in Scripture--Its mingled ferocity and cowardice--Its association into packs--The Wolf's bite--How it takes its prey--Its ravages among the flocks--Allusions to this habit--The shepherd and his nightly enemies--Mr. Tristram and the Wolf--A semi-tamed Wolf at Marsaba 50 THE FOX, OR JACKAL. The two animals comprehended under one name--The Jackal--Its numbers in ancient and modern Palestine--General habits of the Jackal--Localities where the Jackal is found--Samson, and the three hundred "foxes"--Popular objections to the narrative--The required number easily obtained--Signor Pierotti's remarks upon the Jackal--An unpleasant position--How the fields were set on fire--The dread of fire inherent in wild beasts--The truth of the narrative proved--The Fox and Jackal destructive among grapes--Allusions to the Fox in the New Testament--Partially tamed Foxes 55 THE HYÆNA. The Hyæna not mentioned by name, but evidently alluded to--Signification of the word _Zabua_--Translated in the Septuagint as "Hyæna"--A scene described by the Prophet Isaiah--The Hyæna plentiful in Palestine at the present day--Its well-known cowardice and fear of man--The uses of the Hyæna, and the services which it renders--The particular species of Hyæna--The Hyæna in the burial-grounds--Hunting the Hyæna--Curious superstition respecting the talismanic properties of its skin--Precautions adopted in flaying it--Popular legends of the Hyæna and its magical powers--The cavern home of the Hyæna--The Valley of Zeboim 62 THE WEASEL.