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timid, aud even now a very small demonstration leads liim 

 to beat a hasty retreat. Biddy was the first fairly large 

 animal he ventured to approach. One day I tied her np 

 in a court about forty feet square, a cloth having been 

 previously bound over her eyes. The zebra in course of 

 time ventured within a few yards ; later he laid his head 

 across her quarters, and then, for quite a long time, across 

 her withers. He next licked her lips, and ended by gently 

 nibbling at her ears. Evidently at length satisfied a big 

 horse was after all not so terrible an object, he retired to 

 his box and finished his corn. Having once learned the 

 peculiarities of a mare, he never forgets them. Some of 

 the mares he dislikes, while he is very fond of others, 

 getting quite excited when they pass his own particular 

 quarters. Donkeys, however, he completely refuses to 

 take the smallest notice of. 



Remus — born on the 18th May, 1897 — was, at birth, 

 relatively smaller and far less active than Romulus; the 

 period of gestation was three hundred and forty-six days. 

 When a day old he measured 35-^ in., his girth being 28 in. 

 On the 18th of June he had increased to 38f in., the girth 

 being 86 in. When six months old he measured 44|^ in., the 

 girth being 47-i- in., the circumference at the knee 9^ in., 

 and below the knee 5|- in. Romulus at six months old 

 was 42 in. 



From the first Remus has been extremely friendly, and 

 yet in some respects he is more zebra-like than Romulus. 

 For some days he was little more than a machine, — an 

 automaton capable of following a moving object and of 

 sucking. All the special sense-organs were apparently at 

 work, but the brain seemed incapable of making much use 

 of the information collected. If I moved away he followed 

 me, and sucked at my fingers or anything else offered him. 

 He heard his dam when she called, but he was unable to 

 discover whence the sound came, and when he saw her at a 

 few yards distance he failed to recognise her. He seemed 

 to like aloes and water quite as much as sugar and milk, and 

 did not mind either strong smelling-salts or freshly-made 



