A FEW HOOFED ANIMALS 169 



hill with that marvelous gait which no man 

 can imitate or overtake on such perilous 

 ground. * 



Those who have the opportunity should see 

 and study the five in the New York Zoologi- 

 cal Park, for these animals are so exceedingly 

 rare and difficult to obtain that it is well 

 worth the trouble. Watch them carefully. 

 There are no wild mountain airs about them, 

 no scampering from place to place, no scrap-: 

 ping among themselves. They move their 

 snow-white bodies slowly and quietly about, 

 and if pushed by one move gently on one side 

 as though wishing to avoid strife. But their 

 milk-white bodies, their stubby limbs, their 

 questioning dark eyes, and their curious 

 silence all make them deeply interesting. 



I heard a story about another hoofed ani- 

 mal which I am afraid I cannot by any stretch 

 class under the name of a "wild" animal; but 

 there is something so funny and interesting 

 about it that I am venturing to put it in. 

 It was told me by one of the trainers at Bar- 

 num and Bailey's Circus in such a vivid and 



