ORDERS FOR VISITORS. 39 
“It is evidently proper, that in the ad- 
mission of Strangers, some degree of system 
should be observed, especially at the Garden, 
for the sake, both of preventing mischief and 
injury to the Animals, and to the Garden it- 
self, and of contributing, in some degree, to 
save the visitors themselves from the acci- 
dents that sometimes attend exhibitions of 
wild beasts of prey. The vulgar are too 
fond of irritating the fiercer animals, and 
of teazing and hurting these which are gen- 
tle; and both vulgar and others are often 
exceedingly rash, in introducing their hands 
into the dens and enclosures, or careless in 
placing themselves so near the bars, as to de- 
feat the effect of every precaution for their 
safety. Upon the first subject, as you know, 
we have had to caution George; and I be- 
lieve both George and Jane are indebted to 
some risks which they have run for the re- 
spectful distance which they now keep. Only 
the other day, too, as we saw, one of the 
Wolves, though so well guarded in the ken- 
nel, bit the arm of a little boy that had 
taken much pains to introduce it through 
the bars. You see, therefore, that caution 1s 
needful; and, perhaps, even in this view 
