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most curious and surprising of all the beasts. They are 

 extremely mild in their manners, with sweet faces and 

 beautiful black eyes, very like many of the ladies I see in 

 Hyde Park, only far prettier than most of them, and with 

 longer and more graceful necks. As they don't like to 

 stoop down when they browse, their cribs are placed at a 

 considerable height. These are merely small baskets like* 

 fish-creels, of open texture, hung upon the wall and filled 

 with a dry wispy-looking plant, neither hay nor clover. 

 They often stretch up their necks and pull out their food, 

 without taking the trouble to rise from their sides. The 

 one that had the young one is the least of the three, and 

 scarcely cared at all when her child died. The latter is 

 now stuffed and placed near its mother, but she never 

 looks at it. Now, we know that a sheep whose young has 

 died will keep by the dead body for a long time, and will 

 follow any one even from its sweet solitary pastoral hills 

 into the heart of a crowded city, if he carries the skin of 

 the lamb in his hand. 



" The deers and llamas are very fine, and the camels, 

 bisons, &c, of great size. Most of these animals are very 

 tame, but there is an otter which bites every one who is 

 foolish enough to put his hand within its railing. It is 

 kept in a pretty large circular wired enclosure, with a 

 pond in the middle, and a small rock-work island in the 

 centre, with a hollow den for it to sleep in. On each side 



