Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — Great Man Didn’t Scare. [ARTICLE]

Great Man Didn’t Scare.

A student once tried to frighten Cuvier, the great naturalist, and succeeded only in giving the wise man a curious way of showing his knowledge of living things. The student dressed up as a terrible animal and crept into the professor’s bedroom one night “Cuvier,” he cried, in a hollow voice. “Cuvier, I’ve come to eat you!” The naturalist peered at him and immediately broke into a laugh. “What horns and hoofs —graminivorous —you can’t,” he said. He saw that the supposed monster had hoofs and horns and he knew that such animals eat. grain and grasses and not flesh. So he was not in the least afraid of being eaten.