CHAPTER XX 



ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN, HALLE 



This Garden lies in a romantic position in the Reils- 

 berg, and offers a fine view of the surrounding country. 

 The air here is very keen and bracing. The animals 

 are arranged with peculiar taste in idyllic little groups 

 of cages. 



Entrance for adults fifty pfennig, for children thirty 

 pfennig. On Sundays and fete-days the price of 

 entrance is specially announced in advertisements and 

 in the papers. Family tickets, inclusive of a servant, 

 30 marks ; these admit to all concerts. There are 

 four ordinary concerts a week in the summer and one 

 grand concert. Special arrangements are made with 

 Corporations and schools. Perambulators only allowed 

 up to 1 p.m. The garden is opened in summer at 7 am.,, 

 and from October to April at 9 a.m. The animal part 

 of the Garden is closed in the evening by a signal from 

 a horn. The flowers are not to be plucked, and the 

 animals are not to be teased nor fed except with the 

 special food which can be bought in the Garden. 



After a very long drive in a cab drawn by two horses, 

 for which I paid the extraordinarily small sum of 

 1 mark (1 shilling), the Zoological Garden, built round 



