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three hours of light, noise, and excitement every 

 evening, though very much enjoyed by the elephants, 

 try their nerves and make quiet necessary. Most of 

 the big wild-beast shows and circuses own a kind of 

 dockyard and hospital, to which both live stock and 

 dead stock are brought to ' refit/ This establishment 

 is the permanent headquarters of the show. Here the 

 animals which need training are educated by the per- 

 manent trainer, who, if he is really clever at his work, 

 can often pass his pupils on to other hands for actual 

 exhibition in the show. One of these ' repositories ' in 

 North London is well worth a visit. Round the 

 central hall runs a wide gallery, full of scenery, fittings, 

 and appliances for shows past and future. With these 

 are various deceased animals of note, stuffed, embalmed, 

 or bottled in spirits of wine, according to size. This seems 

 customary in foreign menageries. At the wedding of 

 Pezon the famous French menagerie owner and lion 

 tamer all the stuffed animals were brought in to 

 decorate the breakfast salon. In Sanger's repository one 

 or two skeletons of particular favourites are mounted 

 for exhibition, more c Jumbo's ' bones. Below are the 

 reserve of triumphal cars. Others are ' in dock,' being 

 repainted and regilded. The artists who paint the cars 

 are usually educated in the service of menageries, and 

 by the united force of talent and the traditions of the 

 profession have long been famous for their power of 



