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been extfemely active in rising and getting out of 

 her reach, would certainly have destroyed him. He 

 has at times the utmost difficulty to manage her, from 

 the irritability of her disposition, and the great ex- 

 tent, in almost every direction, to which she can kick 

 with her feet, and the propensity she has of seizing 

 whatever offends her, in her mouth. Strangers she 

 will by no means allow to approach her, unless the 

 keeper has hold of her head, and even then there is 

 great risque of a blow from her hind feet. 



The beautiful male Zebra that was burnt, some 

 years ago at the Lyceum, near Exeter 'Change *, 

 was so gentle, that the keeper has often put young 

 children upon its back, and without any attempt 

 from the animal to injure them. In one instance, a 

 person rode it from the Lyceum to Pimlico. But 

 this unusual docility in an animal naturally vicious 

 is to be accounted for, from its having been bred 

 and reared in Portugal, from parents that were 

 themselves half reclaimed. — On the authority of 

 Mr. Church, I have stated this Zebra to have been 

 burnt " from the mischievous act of a Monkey, 

 setting fire to the straw on which he lay." This, 

 however, was not exactly the case. The keeper 

 informs me, that he had left the room in which it 

 was kept, for the purpose of warming some milk for 

 a Kanguroo, when, during his absence, a light from 

 a tin hoop, suspended by a string from the ceiling, 

 burning through its socket, dropped upon the straw, 



* See vol. ii. p. ii2» 



