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(Encounters.) By Ian Burney. 193 pp., illustrated. Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 2006. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-7190-7376-2.

For three days he would water this cabbage with a solution of arsenic. . . . [He] got a rabbit . . . and made the rabbit eat a leaf of the cabbage. The rabbit died. . . . [He] gets his cook to gut the rabbit and throws the intestines on a dungheap. On the dungheap there is a hen, which pecks at the intestines, falls ill in its turn and dies the following day. Just as it is in its final, convulsive agony, a vulture flies past . . . dives at the body and carries it off to a distant crag to eat it. Three . . . [Full Text of this Article]