150 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



It is curious that we in England make so few pets 

 of animals. We have, of course, cats, dogs, and horses, 

 but we go little further. I do not mean to say that 

 every lady should have her pet lion about her, but 

 there are other pets quite as dear and quite as affec- 

 tionate as the horse, dog, and cat. 



Besides Clair Heliot's lions, there was a permanent 

 lion house, containing a pair of lions, a pair of tigers, 

 and a particularly fine jaguar. 



There is a cool underground aquarium well worth 

 the penny extra they charge for admission. The tanks 

 have sea and fresh water pumped continuously into 

 them by a gas engine. Here is to be seen a beautiful 

 collection of fish : trout, lobsters, eels, carp, flat-fish, 

 cray-fish, king crabs, dog-fish ; some beautiful sea- 

 anemones, a large number of sea-horses (most fasci- 

 nating to watch), tortoises, a salamander from Japan, 

 and a tiny seal in a tank and pretty grotto. We next 

 come to some crane pens and duck-ponds, chamois 

 among some rocks, a number of ostriches, and the 

 inevitable herd of Shetland ponies. 



