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MR. CROWLEY'S TABLE MANNERS. 



In the first winter of his residence in Central 

 Park Mr. Crowley had a dangerous attack of 

 pneumonia, during which there were daily bul- 

 letins in the papers, as though he were a public 

 personage. The best medical advice was secured, 

 and he was treated exactly like a child. He 

 submitted cheerfully to poultices and remedies, 

 and completely recovered his health, though after 

 that, as a precautionary measure, he had with 

 dinner his daily spoonful of cod-liver oil, which 

 he enjoyed greatly. 



Mr. Conklin attributed Crowley's perfect 

 health and condition to the fact that he was 

 thoroughly acclimated, and never made tender 

 by living behind glass. On the contrary, he 

 passed his days in a cage, twelve or fifteen feet 

 square, open on one whole side to the air of an 

 animal house, which had both ends wide open to 

 the outside. He went daily back and forth, in 

 the arms of his keeper, from this show-room to 

 his sleeping-room in another building, uncovered 

 and without taking cold. In the winter, it is 

 true, when constant fires become necessary to us, 



