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soon tempted back his appetite with rab 

 bits and pigeons. 



Soon the Monarch was sufficiently con 

 valescent to rip the sheet iron from the side 

 of his cage and break a hole through into 

 the hyena's quarters. By night he was on 

 his muscle in great shape, and Superin 

 tendent Ohnimus sent for the correspon 

 dent to sit up with him all night and help 

 keep the half-ton grizzly from tearing 

 things to pieces. By watching the old fel 

 low and talking to him now and then they 

 managed to distract his attention from 

 mischief most of the time, but he got in 

 considerable work and rolled up several 

 sheets of iron as though they were paper. 



It was evident that no ordinary cage 

 would hold him, and men were at once 

 employed to line one of the compartments 

 with heavy iron of the toughest quality 

 and to strengthen it with bars and angle 

 iron. This made a perfectly secure place 

 of confinement. A watch was kept on the 

 Monarch by the garden keepers during the 



