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odd, but the difficulty lies in the fact that the animals, 

 expecting to be fed, will insist on coming close up to 

 you to the bars, and utterly refuse to go away, in spite 

 of shouts, hisses, showers of stones, and prods with 

 umbrellas. One cannot go back one's self with the 

 camera, or the bars or wire-netting will show in the 

 photograph, and look unsightly. Oddly enough, the 

 bars or wire-netting do not show in the photograph 

 when the camera is held close up against them. 



An ostrich and its baby could be seen near a rather 

 mangy duckpond. There were also some monkeys, 

 animals I am not fond of; they are too much like 

 human beings. But one of them was amusing. When a 

 man said ' Saltit ' to him, he saluted in proper military 

 fashion ; but if a woman asked him to do so, he would 

 do nothing of the sort, but would snarl and show every 

 symptom of anger and annoyance. He was, like some 

 really good military men, a true woman-hater and 

 despiser. 



On the second day I visited the Cimiez Zoo I was 

 more lucky in the weather, for it was a lovely sunny 

 day. On the way there I was obliged to run the 

 gauntlet of scores of masqueraders, as the Nice carnival 

 was on. They threw hard pellets of clay with great 

 force into ray face, and I can assure the reader they 

 hurt considerably. Nearly every other person I met 

 wore a wire mask to protect himself from these attacks. 

 At length the very excellent electric tram was reached, 

 which soon brings one up to the Zoo. The head 

 keeper, Andruetto Francois, is a very genial and 

 chatty man, and helped me a great deal in taking- 

 photographs of all the lions, of which he seemed 



