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when their horns were fully developed. The same was the 
case with the Sambur, a larger and heavier species, re- 
presented by three Knowsley bred individuals; indeed the 
most redoubtable beasts at Knowsley were a Sambur 
Stag, a Wild Ass and a male Guanaco, any one of which 
was shunned as being quite capable of killing a man, and 
not at all unwilling to do so. Happily no fatality occurred, 
but great vigilance was exercised to prevent it. The 
Leucoryx with long curved horns nearly probed his 
keeper’s ribs. The Wild Ass just missed seizing his 
keeper with his teeth, his nostrils distended, like quart 
pots, with rage; the Guanaco dragged continually a long 
chain to restrain fis activity; while on one summer’s 
night the Elk escaped from his plantation and caused a 
poor little belated coachman to spend the night in a tree 
alarmed by the ominous grunting of the Elk rapidly 
advancing in the dark. 
A grand field day came off every now and then, when 
the Zebras and the Wild Ass needed their corns cutting, 
or in other words required their hoofs to be pared, the 
soft verdure of their paddocks not sufficing to keep them 
down. Then all hands were mustered; the blacksmith, 
tall and gaunt, spare of words and strong of lmb, well 
provided with long and strong leather straps with running 
buckles, together with the superintendent, would marshall 
the forces say in a Zebras den (such as may be seen in 
the Zebra house of the Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s 
Park), warily seeking to catch a Zebra’s hoof in the 
running noose, the Zebra as warily doing his best to 
keep it out and give any or all concerned ‘one for them- 
selves,” but ultimately being caught and finally cast and 
held fast by a strap to each foot while the tormentors | 
held down his head and sat on his neck and flanks, 
making a cruel mockery of his gallant resistance. Then the 
