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platform in the photograph a small trolley 
will be noticed, this is the one in which 
Wylde travelled to and from his house 
(known as the Three-quarter Mile Cottage). 
As soon as the last train at night had gone 
he and the baboon used to fix the trolley 
on the rails and Wylde sat upon it with 
his wooden legs pointing the way the trolley 
was to travel. He then took the end of 
the chain attached to the baboon’s collar 
and off they started. “I noticed,’ writes 
Mr. Fuller, “that the baboon never started 
the trolley pulling with its 
collar but used to grip the 
chain and run on three 
legs until the trolley got 
into a good swing. It was 
very fond of Boer brandy 
and tobacco, in fact it 
would get beastly drunk. 
If ever it broke away it 
never associated with the 
other baboons outside the 
town, this being brought in 
from some distance, and From a Photograph. 
they seem very clanish.” 
sl 
Messrs. LAWRENCE & 
Mayo, of 
t, Bombay, 
have been 
good enough to send us 
the photograph we re- | 
produce on this page of a \ 
curious nest made by a — 
crow. The following is 
the history connected with 
it. At Messrs. Lawrence 
and Mayo’s factory for the 
manufacture of spectacles, 
a good deal of annoyance was caused by the 
mysterious disappearance of gold, silver, 
and steel spectacle frames which daily 
disappeared as soon as made in a manner 
which defied all human ingenuity employed 
to trace the thief. These frames were 
manufactured in a special room  appro- 
priated for the purpose, which had only one 
window. Near the window was placed a 
small table, on which the spectacle-frames, 
as soon as made, were arranged in order. 
A Crow’s 
Curious Nes 
From a Photograph. 
A NEST OF SPECTACLES MADE BY A CROW. 
A HEDGEHOG AND HER FAMILY. 
Animal Life 
The room was accessible during the day to 
other employés, but the chief workman in 
charge of it, for the greater part of each 
day, was the assistant to the manager, who 
as much as any one, was at a loss to 
account for the mysterious disappearance. 
On reporting the matter to his manager, the 
access of all other persons to the room except 
the assistant was prevented, but still the 
spectacle frames continued to disappear, not 
one or two, but fifteen or twenty a day. In 
less than four days, eighty-four gold, silver, 
and steel frames, of the 
value of about Rs. 500 had 
vanished. The mystery 
baffled the utmost in- 
genuty of the establish- 
ment to unravel it. On 
the fourth day however, 
the imanager’s assistant 
was at work alone when 
his eyes suddenly fell upon 
a crow which picked up a 
spectacle frame from the 
table and flew away. 
Considerable 1elief at the 
discovery of the thief was 
experienced by everyone. 
But how was the stolen 
»_ property to be recovered ? 
* It was suggested that 
\ another spectacle frame 
should be placed upon the 
table, and arrangements 
made to watch the direc- 
tion in which the thief 
flew away. It proved to 
be a happy idea. The 
crow came again to the 
table, picked up the 
frame, and flew away to add it to the 
framework of its nest. This was being 
constructed, rather artistically for a crow, in 
a corner of the roof of a building in the same 
street. The assistant of Messrs. Lawrence 
and Mayo, after obtaining the necessary per- 
mission, visited the crow’s nest, of which he 
secured a photograph before applying his 
hands to it. He found it stuffed with the 
eighty-four stolen spectacle frames, which 
were all uninjured. 
