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These circus Arabs and their compani 



irc rhc pride of tnc ring. 



But what are those striped horses? Wild 

 cousins of the horse, the zebras still 

 roam the African veldt in their hun- 

 dreds, though once it was in their 

 thousands. Another species of zebra, 

 the quagga, was ruthlessly hunted by 

 the Boer farmers until the last of what 

 had once been numbered in millions 

 disappeared, one of the worst examples 

 of man's thoughtless greed, on a level 

 with his treatment of the American 

 bison. 



It is not impossible to train the zebra 

 and fifty years ago a pair of the animals 

 could be seen drawing a carriage in 

 Hyde Park. 



