WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



legs of the beasts. Knowing the danger of their being 

 irritated and annoyed by their limbs being encumbered, 

 I ordered the ropes to be let fall on the ground in order 

 that they should be disengaged from their legs, then, to 

 keep them quiet, I took a quartern loaf which had been 

 kept in readiness, and, going between them, broke off 

 pieces of bread and put in their mouths. 



Having attracted their attention by these means, they 

 got steady and turned round to follow me for the bread ; 

 this enabled the men to again get fairly hold of the ropes. 



What had become of my friend Dr. Corrigan and the 

 keeper with the bundle of hay during this little scramble 

 I never heard, but certainly they were completely out of 

 sight before we started the second time. No sooner had 

 we started again (towards the house they were intended 

 to pass the winter in) than I found their pace increase 

 rapidly from a walk to a trot, from a trot to a gallop, 

 myself taking the lead ; there was no time for talking, but 

 away we went full pelt. I was closely followed by my 

 rough friends dragging behind them all my brave army, 

 whose weight, strength, and determined efforts did not 

 appear to make the least difference to the speed of these 

 brutes, but on we went. Fortunately I had directed the 

 gates of the yard leading to the house to be set wide open, 

 and which had been attended to, as there was no time to 

 knock at the door. The animals bolted in and across the 

 yard into the house ; I threw the remaining portions of 

 the loaf on the floor and scrambled over the rails out of 

 the way of danger ; they followed close at my heels, then 

 came to a sudden stop inside the house, and all was soon 

 satisfactorily settled. 



After the experience of the first removal of the two 

 rhinoceroses, I thought it would be quite unsafe to again 

 risk a run for it in taking them back to their summer 



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