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and failed. After being handled by Captain Hayes on 

 Thursday, March 17, the stallion trotted back from the 

 paddock apparently as well as ever. On Sunday morning 

 he did not get up, and died the same evening. 



Mr. Salaman made the post-onortem on March 23; and 

 found the immediate cause of death to be heart failure, which 

 could not be explained. An official report said: 



It is obviously impossible to be certain that the death was unconnected 

 with the breaking in, but it is satisfactory to know that there was no sign 

 of any injury to any of the internal organs, although the bones were un- 

 usually brittle, and the stallion was much older than had been supposed, 

 or any indication that could in any way reflect on the judgment and skill 

 of Captain Hayes. 



Since then nothing has been done to utilise the zebra stock 

 for draught, saddle, or parade. Strong opinions have been 

 expressed as to the wisdom or unwisdom of attempting to 

 train these animals for display purposes. It must be borne in 

 mind that the Society had long been urged to " do something " 

 with their fine equine stock. Anything was better than the 

 old policy of " masterly inactivity " ; and though everyone 

 deplores the result, it should in fairness be remembered that 

 the authorities had the sanction of Professor Cossar Ewart and 

 Captain Hayes for their line of action. 



That zebras can be broken to draught is well known. The 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild's team is a case in point. A pair 

 belonging to the Jardin d'Acclimatation are often driven 

 through the streets of Paris. The late Mr. Cross, of Liverpool, 

 used to drive a pair in 1886 from the Shipperies Exhibition 

 down to his menagerie ; and within the last six years Mr. 

 W. Simpson Cross has had seven broken to harness so that 

 they would go anywhere and everywhere amongst the Liverpool 

 traffic. " In February, 1903," he writes, " they worked practi- 

 cally the whole day for one of our present Members of Parlia- 

 ment, taking voters to the poll just as horses might do." 



Jim, the famous Indian rhinoceros, which had been pre- 

 sented in July, 1864, died in December, 1904, having been 

 more than forty years in the Gardens, of which he was the 

 oldest inhabitant. Guy Fawkes, the hippopotamus, born Novem- 

 ber 5, 1872, succeeded to that distinction ; and Suffa Culli, the 

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