18 WILD ANIMAL CELEBRITIES 



the tamest animal angry, Schley will look 

 quietly at them, keep a tight hold of the meat 

 and, when they have finished, go on with his 

 meal! 



I have never seen any wild animal so ap- 

 parently tame, in every way. I say "ap- 

 parently" because, as I have said so many 

 times before, I do not believe in the "tame- 

 ness" of any wild animal, no matter how real 

 it may seem to be. A wild animal is always 

 a wild animal; no training, care, or kindness 

 can ever actually eradicate the inherent sav- 

 agery and fierceness of his nature. There 

 only needs to be something to bring it out. In 

 the majority of wild animals there are certain 

 things which almost invariably do so, but with 

 Schley these things do not seem to count. 



But one of these days, some little thing will 

 happen, some trifle perhaps, which no one will 

 expect him to even notice, and from some un- 

 known reason, or perhaps no reason at all, 

 that savage nature will suddenly assert it- 

 self and prove that, after all, Schley is a wild 

 animal. If it does not, then, indeed, he de- 



