In Winter Quarters 



going or coming. His front and rear 

 have even less in common than that 

 buffalo bull we saw a while ago. How- 

 ever, such small matters as relative 

 physical conformations are of no real 

 consequence to any of us because there 

 are no common standards of com- 

 parison. The giraffe unquestionably 

 looks down upon man as a mere freak 

 of nature; his own make-up being 

 from his standpoint the one and only 

 correct anatomical construction. The 

 question in all cases is not whose leg 

 is the longest or biggest, whose girth 

 greatest, or whose -feet are cloven or 

 webbed. The real query is: what sort 

 of spirit dwells within ? In human-kind, 

 is it that of Perseus or pugilist? And 

 if I had my way there would be no 

 prison pens for living birds or beasts 

 in Lincoln Park or any other. Mu- 

 seums and taxidermists are bad 

 enough. 



Meantime, what is the lesson of the 

 "zoo"? Most of you will say perhaps 

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