APES 



CHIMPANZEE STRENGTH. 



The nearly adult female in the Society's collection was 

 able to bend and tear out the iron bars of a den sufficiently 

 strong to hold a lion. 



BAETLETTS BABY. 



Welcome, little Stranger ! You 

 Are tlie darling of the Zoo, 

 Bartlett's babe, the public pet. 

 Lucky, lucky Zoo to get. 

 At a cost scarce worth the mention, 

 Living proof beyond contention 

 Of — oh ! well, of whatsoever 

 Savants sage and ciitics clever, 

 On their controversial mettle 

 May — or maybe may not — settle. 

 Six-and-twenty years ago 

 (Buffers elderly majr know) 

 Kose the great Gorilla feud ; 

 Dr. Gray was rather rude, 

 Kather on Du Chaillu down, 

 And the sliindy stirred the Town. 

 Owen, great on brains and bones. 

 Lectured it in learned tones ; 

 Huxley to the battle rushed ; 

 Mutually they "pished" and "tushed" 

 In that calm and courteous way 

 Savants have, when they're in fray. 

 Mr. Punch, with ample reason, 

 Called you "Lion of the Season," 

 Great Gorilla. Now 'tis plain 

 The old fame revives again. 

 Happy Bartlett ! Lucky Ape ! 

 Fortune conies in curious shape. 

 You perchance, oh simian child ! 

 Might have roamed the Afric wild, 

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