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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
unusual interest to the large number of people 
who are taking- up goats at the present time so 
as to obtain a supply of milk for themselves and 
their children, and there will be on view specimens 
from all parts of the country of various different 
breeds of goats. There will be also milking tests 
for quantity and quality. 
SOLDIERS MUST BE KIND TO 
ANIMALS. 
The following excellent rules for the oare of 
animals and equipment, which has been published 
as a General Order in the 26th Division, A, E.F. , 
are re-published with certain additions for the in- 
formation and guidance of all organizations of 
the American Expeditionary Force : — 
TREATMENT. 
Only men with a natural liking for the horse 
and mule should be detailed as drivers and stable- 
men. 
All officers and men having charge of animals 
will observe the following : — 
1. Make friends with your animals. They 
are amenable to kindness, and, contrary to the 
popular belief, mules respond quicker to it than 
do horses. When coming up to an animal speak 
quietly and approach quietly. 
2. All rough treatment on animals — knock- 
ing them about, kicking them, hitting them over 
the head — and all loud, vicious language toward 
them must be avoided. An animal rendered timid 
or ugly through cruelty or ignorance will never 
do his best in an emergency. 
3. Especial patience is essential in handling 
newly-arrived remounts. Use the switch rarely. 
A good driver will always have well-mannered, 
well-trained and well-groomed animals. Treat- 
ment and training should be such that 30 days 
after the arrival of a remount a stranger may han- 
dle it without the animal evincing f'ear or vicious- 
ness — may even put it to the special test of plac- 
ing his hands upon its ears or legs. 
4. In driving or riding never yank the mouth 
or an animal by the bridle or reins or otherwise. 
Never " milk" the lines to start animals or to in- 
crease their gait. These faults are evidence of 
bad training, ignorance or grossness. In driving 
teams make sure that the draught is equally di- 
vided among the animals all the time. 
5. Do not ride an animal with the curb bit. 
Use the snaffle or the snaffle in combination with 
the curb. 
A NEW SEA MONSTER. 
From the earliest ages men who gO' down to 
the sea in ships have had stories to tell us of 
wierd monsters encountered on their Voyages. 
Usually if the creatures are netted, stranded, or in 
other ways "come into possession." they are found 
to be referable to one or other well-known species, 
but when they escape they have the strange gla- 
mour peculiar to lost fish, and we puzzle over the 
lurid descriptions of their appearance in a vain 
effort to determine their race. 
One of the latest occurrences of the kind is 
recorded by the " Orknev Herald":^ 
"When a Flotta boat's crew, trying for 
cod, were working their lines a little way oft 
the North Head of Swona, there suddenly ap- 
peared within a few yards of the yawl's side 
a marine "monstrosity," such as the men had 
never seen before — and the close proximity 
of which was calculated to cause them more 
than a little apprehension. With a "caput" 
resembling nothing so much as that of a huge 
ox, but with enormously wide nostrils, just 
level with the water — nostrils, into which, as 
one of the men said, "a closed fist might 
have been thrust" — and with some eight or 
ten feet of a rounded (also- ox-like) body show- 
ing, the "monster" whose eyes were not clear 
ly discerned, lay head on to the boat for a 
minute or so. Then curving upwards the part 
of its back that showed, the strange creature 
slowly sank beneath the surface of the sea. 
But a few minutes later it re-appeared — 
though this time a good deal farther away — 
to remain, for another brief space, with its 
head turned towards the boat; and then, just 
as before, to sink slowly out of sight. The 
yawl's crew did not see it again, nor, we 
fancy, were they at all sorry. The creature, 
by the way, seemed to be covered with hair, 
though this, as with the hair of land animals 
when they are wet,' lay smoothly upon it — or, 
rather, upon what they saw of it, for they 
could form no conjecture as to its actual 
dimensions." 
The correspondent adds that some years ago 
he heard of a - small boat fishing near Switha being- 
pursued for a considerable distance by some horri- 
ble denizen of the sea, with a head like that of a 
horse. 
That the unplumbed deeps may contain deni- 
zens, more or less horrible, we should be the last 
to deny; we would merely remark that they have 
a knack of changing their more horrible and strik- 
ing characteristics whenever they come into' the 
hands of the museum authorities. 
