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\\lio took ilai! \vhieh it -* int (I 



jo !.< \rry ^ iisibl,.. Oft, ii, v, !,' ii ill ,1, )t 



would tlirov. "ii tin Around ;is if in despair, 



Mttering -lamentable cries. I k p< T lia\in^ 1 



accn sometimes to sit near it on tin- ground, 



Hid take tin hay of its bed, and -pr< ad it in 

 tin- form of a cushion or a 



moiistration invite i<> kc^p. r to Mt \\ith it. It-, 

 usual manner of \\alkii. on all lours, but it 



eonld id.M> \\alk on i two hind feet. One inorn- 

 ini; it u r "t unchained, and we beheld it, with won- 

 derful ability, ascend the Ix anis and rafters of the 

 building: it was not without .xoine trou!>le that it 



taken, and we then remarked the prodigious 

 strength of the animal; the a.v>istancc of four men 

 beinir necessaiy, in order to hold it in such a man- 



as to Ix properly secured. During its state 

 of liberty, it hud, among other things, taken the 

 cork from a bottle of Malaga wine, which it drank 

 t<> the la-t drop, and had set the bottle in i^ place 



n. Wlu-n presented witfj .strawberries on a 

 plate, of which it was extremely fond, it was \, r\- 

 umutiii^ to Bee it take them up one by one with 

 a fork, and put them into its mouth. Its common 

 drink was water, but it also willingly drank all 



