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other, also a gray place extending from the end 

 of the mane to the tail. When 



OLIVE GENTLY LICKED MY HAND 



I noticed that her nostrils and lips were black, 

 that her muzzle was gray or a dirty white, and that 

 her tongue was pink in the middle and had a black 

 border. 



Lately the musk-ox has been placed between the 

 ox and the sheep and honored with a genius of its 

 own called ovibos. 



In the Barren Grounds north of Great Bear 

 Lake, "Olive" lived upon twigs and grass, but 

 she took kindly to civilized food and contentedly 

 munched the crackers which I had brought in my 

 pockets to please her. 



The sketching of wild animals is always at- 

 tended with more or less inconvenience on the part 

 of the artist, in the wilderness; he must get his 

 poses with hasty sketches made from life and make 

 his finished drawings from the dead animal or 

 from the zoological specimen confined in the gar- 

 den, but this is not always a simple task. I have 

 been in more serious danger 



SKETCHING IN WILD ANIMAL STORES, 

 MENAGERIES, 



and such places, than I ever have been in the wil- 

 derness. 



.While. I was in no danger shut up with 

 "Olive" in her little cage, I found it anything but 



