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some flesh flung to each. There was no fighting, as 

 each was tethered apart. 



In another cage three lions, two tigers, two leopards, 

 and two pumas went through the same feeding 2:)rocess. 

 I asked one of the men if he ever got hurt. 



' Yes,' he said, ' I get a scratch now and then by 

 accident ; but it is done in play, for I love my animals 

 and they love me.' 



I asked Hagenbeck what the lot of six tigers and 

 three lions were worth. He answered that when he 

 first trained them he was offered £7,500 for them. 

 ' But I would not take it,' he added. ' Why, they 

 bring me in £4,000 a year clear profit when on the 

 road, besides the advertisement they give me.' 



In one house I saw 150 monkeys. Three large lion 

 houses contained twenty-five lions, twenty -one Bengal 

 tigers, and five crosses between lion and tiger, seen 

 nowhere else in the world. Two of these lion-tigers 

 were three weeks old, and were being suckled by a 

 fox-terrier bitch. Two were one year and two weeks 

 old, and one (a magnificent animal) was full-grown. 

 It is five years old, is fawn-coloured and faintly 

 striped; it weighs 450 lb., is 10 feet long, and stands 

 45 J inches high at the shoulder. It is the largest 

 carnivorous animal alive. In one of the lion houses 

 was a magnificent collection of red- deer horns from 

 Hungary, Germany, and Denmark. In an elephant 

 house were twelve elephants, including a female ele- 

 phant suckling a youngster eight months old. The 

 female was served in captivity, and is now expected to 

 give birth to a second. 



There were 28 big Arabian baboons, 40 adult females, 



