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CHAPTER XXV. 



THE MONARCH OF AFRICAN WATERS. 



1. ON the 5th of November, 1604, the whole of Lon- 

 don was in a state of commotion at hearing of the dis- 

 covery of " Guy Fawkes " sitting in a cellar under the 

 Houses of Parliament, on a powder- barrel, with a match 

 in his hand, his intention being to blow up James I and 

 the House of Lords. On the 5th of November. 1872, 

 two hundred and sixty-eight years later, London was again 

 put in a state of commotion by the appearance of an- 

 other " Guy Fawkes " ; this time, however, not in the 

 cellar under the Houses of Parliament, but in the straw 

 by the side of his mother, in her den at the Zoological 

 Gardens. This celebrated animal, " Guy Fawkes," is so 

 called on account of the date of his birth. 



2. A few days after the birth of the young one, Mr 

 Bartlett was watching it swimming about the tank. It 



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The Hippopotamus. 



