I am an emu, and I am one of the lowest members of the class of emetics, or sickening animals, which are connected together by the common tie of having an internal surface, which is liable to be acted upon by extraneous causes, so as to produce vomiting. The emetics are placed between the surtues, which are always in a state of health, and the sickening ones, which are never in a state of health, but are always sickening, and are, therefore, termed sickening animals. The emetics are ranged in classes, according to the degree of their sickening power, and I am the least sickening of the least sickening class, which is termed the class of small sickening animals. I am, therefore, a small emetic
