Notes and 
beginning until I had had him quite a 
long time and he had become very much 
attached to me; hence his anxiety to please 
made him quick to learn. This, I am 
sure, 1s half the battle in a matter of this 
kind. I am not a professional dog-trainer, 
and know nothing of the methods usually 
adopted, though one hears queer stories, 
most of them I should imagine apocryphal, 
but I am quite sure, from my own experience, 
that you can get more out of an animal 
by love and kindness than in any other 
“Jock” does not often appear in 
way.” 
public as a performer, being strictly an 
amateur, though occasionally he helps some 
charity by giving a side show at a bazaar, 
when he often adds £5 to the funds. But 
in private life he is much in request, and 
generally takes his share in the entertain- 
ments which are got up at the Melrose Hall 
Hotel during the winter months. He takes 
a real pleasure in performing, and is quite 
offended if he is not “in the bill.” 
“WHITE WINGS.” 
Comments 381 
On this and the two following pages we 
are able to give portraits of 
eight animal abnormalities, all 
of which belong to Mr. H. H. 
Bostock, of the Glasgow Hippodrome, to 
whom we are indebted for permission to 
reproduce the pictures. The three first are 
of two long-maned horses—‘ White Wings,” 
sald to be “the most beautiful horse alive,” 
and “Tinus,” who boasts a tail seventeen 
feet long, and a double mane, thirteen. The 
half-dozen other animals are ‘‘ Wild Nell,” 
a hairless or india-rubber skinned mare ; 
Equine 
Monstrosities. 
“ Jonathan” and “Mike,” the greatest con- 
trast in donkeys ever seen; ‘ Dinah,” an 
equine mountain twenty-one hands high; 
and lastly, ‘‘ Columbus” and “ Dot,” the giant 
and midget, or, as the picture might aptly 
be called, “ Dignity and Impudence.’ We 
should advise our readers, whenever Womb- 
well’s Menagerie is in their neighbourhood, 
to make the personal acquaintance of these 
queer animals as soon as possible. 
