With I-lashli-iU ami Rifle ^ 



The massive voiinq' rhinoceros consorting' with these 

 two h.ast Alrican ^oals is a taii'ious sii^ht ! The 

 pubHc — that is to sa)-, the piil )h'c w hicl") IreciiuMits oiir 

 Zoological ("lardcns on a Sinula\- — tlocs not know what to 

 make ol thorn. " Look, chiKh'cn," xoii ma\' hoar pater- 



" I'Al'lMA," MV VOUNC K 111 NOCK UOS, AND IlKK M KSSM A TK. 1 1 1 K GdA l". 

 TIMS COAl' Sill 1, KKKl'S IIKR (OMrANV IN lllli IIKKLIN ZOOLOCICAL 



(;aui)Kns 



lamihas remark ; " look at the; rhinoceros and the poor 

 little goats. Isn't it sad? lie will oat them up." 



It does not enter the gixxl nian's head that an iinseltish 

 feeling (A Iriendship, a cr\ in^ need ol companionship, 

 can hnd a place in the- heart ol this uncouth deni/en ol 

 the wilderness. \ ou will look in \ain lor an\- under- 

 standing of the great thick-skinned e.xile in the minds c)l 

 the thousands ol human \isilors who imagme di'-inseKe , 

 (|uite wrongly, so inlmiteK' his superior. 



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