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time it visited thirty-four different towns ! If variety 

 and change of scene are good for the animals' constitu- 

 tions, they must have been in rude health at the end of 

 this period. Most of the marching is done in the early 

 morning. The elephants, camels, and other beasts of 

 draught are taken, if possible, to a stream to drink ; 

 and nothing could well be more strangely in contrast 

 to its surroundings than the group of camels and 

 elephants drinking from a wayside stream, the former 

 browsing on the hawthorn branches full of May 

 blossom. With the rise of the circus element in 

 menageries has come an additional demand for the 

 ' taming ' and training of wild and domestic animals. 

 The trainer is not always the performer. There is no 

 better proof of his success than when someone else can 

 enter the cage and take his place, as when Madame 

 Baptistine Pezon, when her husband fell ill, put on the 

 costume he used in performances, and put the lions 

 through their tricks. The demeanour of the animals 

 themselves, when lions, tigers, or leopards perform, 

 is often evidence of the method, whether cruel or kind, 

 employed first in taming and later in teaching them. 

 A correspondent of the Globe, recounting the history 

 of the famous dompteur, states that lions are often 

 tamed, like hawks, by deprivation of sleep, accom- 

 panied by plentiful feeding. It is very doubtful 

 whether English trainers are cruel to animals. Mr. 



