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J1AUTI.V CLIMBING 1IIS TREE. 



In the Garden of I M.-mt-. .it Paris there are two deep pits, walled in and railed around, in which 

 there are Beveral bears, Mark, brown, and white. These are objects of the liveliest interest to vis- 

 itors, and especially the children. The huge leasts will lie down, roll over, assume a begging 

 ire, make funny faces, and play many pranks, for the petty boon of pieces of cake or bread 

 thrown \<< them. Sometimes one of them will climb up the trunk of a dry tree planted in the 

 middle of the fi — . Such a feal generally secures him a cake worth a sou. 



S me year- sine,, one of the bears in this collection was, if we may use the expression, one 

 of the lions of Paris. Bis name was Martin, and as all the people of Paris were freely admitted 

 to the Garden, everybody became acquainted with him. During the hours of exhibition, the 



