NOV 3 1922 
Everybody's Magazine 
Vol. VI 
MARCH, 1902. 
No. 3. 
WILD BEASTS 
BEHIND THE 
BARS. 
COGITATION. 
HESITATION. 
HOW CAPTIVITY AFFECTS THE LIFE OF HIE JUNGLE. 
By C. Bryson Taylor. 
Illustrated from Photographs by Oliver Lippincott. 
This series of photographs of wild animals, perhaps the most remarkable ever taken, were made by Oliver Lippincott 
ONCE a keeper, by secrecy and much 
guile, saw a lioness teaching her 
cage-born cubs — two squealing, 
furry infants — the ancient lore of the jun- 
gle, which no beast ever forgets. How to 
leap from the brush upon a buck's back at 
the exact angle to break that back at a sin- 
gle blow — through a pile of straw. How 
to follow a blood trail to where the quarry 
lay — through sawdust. The prize was a 
bit of raw beef, but the cubs did not care. 
They had never known — never would know 
— the fierce joy of the hunt and the kill, 
the lust of clean, hot blood in the free des- 
ert. Not for them the knowledge of what 
it meant to send a challenge rolling across 
the desolate plain beneath the stars, to 
hear the answer pealing forth in distant 
thunder from the ends of the earth ; to 
know themselves the masters of their world. 
Later on in life, the blood and the soul that 
was in them would teach them what they 
had missed and lost, as instinct teaches all 
wild things even unto the third and fourth 
generation of them that are born in bond- 
age. They had not yet learned to pace to 
and fro, always to and fro, prisoners of the 
bars that held them back from life and the 
freedom which was their birthright. The 
keeper said it was a pretty sight ; also he 
thought it was rather hard on the old girl. 
What good would all her pains ever do 
the little youngsters ? Wherein he showed 
imagination — a thing which most of his 
kind greatly lack. 
Much — very much — has been written of 
wild life behind the bars ; of the lion, the 
leopard, the tiger, trained and untrained, 
in captivity ; of how they are caught and 
caged ; how treated, how trained, and the 
