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sented on the circus posters as recklesslydashmg over palisade- 

 like fences, is usually found in sober fact to be a dejected looking 

 animal of very moderate proportions, requiring vigorous punch- 

 ing to induce him to trot around the ring and leap the low 

 '^ hurdles " the " general utility " men hold for him. His great- 

 est aim in life appears to be to avoid hurting his shins wbile 

 going over these barriers. 



Buffalo training is nothing but reducing the animal to sub- 

 mission, which a few applications of the horse taming straps will 

 usually accomplish. Then he is driven around the ring until 

 he learns to keep up a steady trot, after which the hurdles are 

 placed in his way and he made to leap over, by the trainer's 

 assistants standing so as to cut off his retreat, and the trainer 



THE IDEAL IJUFPALO OF THE POSTERS. 



goading him forward. In obstinate cases a ring is attached to 

 the animal's nose in the same manner as with bulls. 



There are occasional examples recorded of the taming of 

 wolves and hyenas. A story, we believe well a uthenticated, of 

 a pet wolf, is related by M. Frederick Ouvier, and shows 

 that even animals not usually considered affectionate, are not 

 without gratitude to their benefactors, nor insensible of kind 

 treatment. The wolf, who is the hero of this story, had been 

 brought up like a dog, and became familiar with every one he 

 was in the habit of seeing. He would follow his master, seemed 

 to suffer from his absence, evinced entire subm.ission, and differed 

 not in manners from the tamest domestic dog. The master 

 being obliged to travel, m.ade a present of him to the Eoyal 

 IVEenagerie at Paris. Here, shut up in his compartment, the 

 animal remained for several weeks moody and discontented, and 



