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giraffe at the Zoo makes all its coat bright and clean 

 except its neck, which, as the beast has no companion 

 to wash it, is several shades darker than the rest of 

 its body, and is a source of manifest discomfort. 



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Standing on Auchensauch Hill, in the upper ward 



of Lanarkshire, one may view the Black 



Douglas 

 Burn flowing eastward towards the 



Clyde, and on the west the Douglas Water taking a 

 northward course to join the same river lower down 

 near Lanark. The renown of a name comes from the 

 acts of those who bear it; yet it is difficult to believe 

 that, had the lords of this land chosen as their title, 

 not the Celtic name of Douglas, but its Saxon equi- 

 valent Blackburn, chivalrous and historic association 

 could have woven themselves so closely round it as 

 they have round Douglas the tender and true. There 

 are a hundred streams in the north called Douglas 

 and Blackburn (the meaning is identical) ; but this 

 Douglas this sluggish, loamy current winding 

 through its green upland dale is famous above 

 all other ' black- waters,' for it has yielded its name 

 to the most illustrious house in Scotland. 



