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the circus. A series of illustrations shows a rab- 
bit sitting on top of a long paper cylinder or 
tunnel, supported upon a stick, while a procession 
of bunnies bolts incontinently through it. Just 
below, a clown-rabbit is seen jumping through 
a paper drum, while another circus rabbit fires 
a pistol, and still a third drags a miniature chariot 
around the arena. While a dissipated little creat- 
ure stands on his head and shows other signs 
of over-indulgence, another pet rocks gently to 
and fro in a little swing. Others of Mademoi- 
selle Claire’s performers scamper under burning 
wickets, and vault between blazing candles over 
a succession of candelabra arranged as hurdles. 
This is much prettier than the trained rats and 
mice which have been shown in the same city of 
clever people, for all our associations with the 
rabbit are endearing; and the success that has 
followed the training of these pets, which do not 
stand high in brain power, goes to show what I 
have suggested hitherto, that if its disposition is 
favorable, a weak-minded animal learns tricks 
more satisfactorily than a strong-minded one. 
With some account of a most interesting troupe 
of trained cats this essay must come to a close; 
and this account has been left until the last be- 
cause it is perhaps the most recent, and one of 
the most striking of the trainer’s triumphs. This 
troupe is that of the young Dutchman Bonnetty, 
which formed one of the main attractions of the 
