104 MENAGERIE ANIMALS 



painting on the panels the most dreadful roaring, bound- 

 ing, all-devouring lions which ever caught negroes 

 under a palm-tree. Below on the ground-floor are 

 the stalls and stables for the animals in hospital, on 

 sick-leave, or simply needing rest and quiet. These 

 quarters are kept in half-darkness, as the dim light suits 

 animal invalids. The elephants are picketed by the 

 leg. Other animals zebras, llamas, goats, and camels 

 are kept in loose-boxes or pens made of high hurdles. 

 Every morning all the animals on furlough are taken 

 out for long walks, each being led by a lad or a keeper. 

 It was when out for one of these constitutionals from 

 the hospital that Sanger's big elephant ran away 

 through Islington some years ago, and met with such 

 remarkable adventures. The old-fashioned ' wild-beast 

 shows ' like Wombwell's, Maunder's, and others which 

 delighted the country towns and villages thirty years 

 ago by simply exhibiting animals in caravans, with a 

 few elephants and camels to carry visitors, are now 

 usually merged in circuses, in which the performances 

 of trained animals have the first place. This demands 

 a great number of horses and ponies. These have very 

 hard work in the arena, especially those which are 

 trained to jump over flights of hurdles. The regularity 

 with which menagerie horses will ' come to the scratch/ 

 sometimes twice daily, for a long series of gallops, broad 

 jumps, and high jumps would surprise many owners of 



