WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



(to keep them in safety) placed them in a glass jar for 

 the night. The curator on the following morning finding 

 them, in his room, and not knowing they were alive, filled 

 up the jar with spirits ; he was startled, as also were these 

 unlucky dwellers in water, who, for the advancement of 

 science, unfortunately lost their lives by imbibing too 

 large a quantity of alcohol. 



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