ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, BUDA-PESTH i-ji 



There were crowds of people, and a band played 

 during the afternoon. Bread was sold for feeding the 

 animals, and a good many people bought some ; but I 

 do not like to see the poor brutes teased and tantalized 

 with it. I could not help laughing when I saw a great 

 fat man holding a piece of bread on the end of his 

 umbrella far out of reach, as he thought, of a large 

 brown bear. Time after time the animal tried to 

 reach the tempting morsel without success. But, 

 with a last prodigious effort, it grabbed both bread 

 and umbrella with its powerful claws, and tore the 

 latter to shreds. 



In the centre of the Garden a side-show was given, 

 consisting of singing and dancing by some natives of 

 Africa, who called themselves 'Atogos'; but I think 

 from their absurdly silly dancing and quaint hair- 

 dressing they w^ere Dahomeyans. 



