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eyed her with mute astonishment. Finally, feeling her 

 strength fail, and seeing no possible way of escape, she 

 flung herself into a corner, where a much-deserved fate 

 at last overtook her. 



Intelligent animals rarely resent the severity of a 

 trainer who once has made them feel his power ; but 

 that their forbearance must require a great deal of self- 

 control is proved by the fact that they sometimes re- 

 venge themselves upon a proxy of the tyrant, his 

 friends or a favorite pet. After a knout-drill some 

 hunting-dogs have an ugly way of falling upon their 

 comrades, or even upon their own puppies, resolved 

 to " take it out" of somebody. Sick horses often kick 

 the stable-boy by way of getting even with the farrier ; 

 and I remember an amusing instance of an animal's 

 appeal to the code of the lex talionis. During the winter 

 season the Botanic Garden of Brussels is used by the 

 proprietors of various peripatetic menageries as a zoo- 

 logical depot, where the caged travellers can recuperate 

 and enjoy the hospitality of the city on condition of 

 exhibiting their charms gratis. Sick animals often stay 

 the year round ; and a few years ago the managers took 

 charge of a baby elephant whose constitution had all but 

 succumbed to the rigors of the climate. In the course of 

 the summer, however, Micheline got on her legs again, 

 so much, indeed, as to become positively rampant, 

 especially when her keeper indulged her in an out-door 

 ramble. On account of the supposed sensitiveness of 



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