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was afflicted with a serious lameness in his right hindleg. 
We hoped the brute would recover from this malady, but 
instead of getting better his lameness grew worse, and eventu- 
ally he became so weak that he could only with the greatest 
difficulty stand up again in his stall after he had once lain 
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down. At last he grew so bad that he lay tor two whole days 
groaning in his stall, and my father seeing that nothing 
could be done for him, sold the unfortunate animal to the 
Hamburg Museum. The authorities of this institution took 
him over with the intention of killing him themselves. But 
this was not such an easy matter as they had supposed. They 
first attempted to put an end to the poor beast by injecting 
