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K YER V BODY 'S MAGAZINE 
SAMMY, A TWO-YEAR-OLD OF AMAZINGLY BUCOLIC HABITS, FROM WHOSE RUDE BEHAVIOR CESAR HAD GALLANTLY 
DEFENDED MRS. GRUNDY. 
vain on being admired ; they Avere warm 
and well fed and happy ; — and they were 
young. And youth, in whatever guise, is 
greatly careless of the looming future. 
They sparred and romped with agile clumsi- 
ness — there is such a thing, and a lion has 
it — they were bubbling over with excited 
anticipation, because it was just their din- 
ner time. That is the beginning of a young- 
ster's prison education. It takes him a 
weary while to discover that that is all in 
life he has to took forward to. At first he 
is forever eagerly watching for an ever ex- 
pected something to happen. It never does 
happen ; and at last he understands that it 
never will happen. When this knowledge 
comes to him, he takes it according to his 
nature ; but at bottom there is for long a 
hope, faint, but dying hard, that if he waits 
just a little while longer the heart-break- 
ing monotony will end. It always does end, 
in one way — that unexplained change of 
temperament which is deeper than mere 
madness, which causes his fellows to shun 
him and man to fear him. 
As is to be inferred, the feline actors 
whom we consider ourselves to know so 
well, have a much happier lot in life than 
falls to their less lucky brethren of the 
Gardens. They have fuller scope for their 
many small idiosyncrasies — also for their 
strength. The freedom from their cramped 
quarters, the additional exercise, the min- 
gling with their kind; the excitement of 
the music, the lights, the crowds — all tend 
to brighten existence. They learn to look 
forward to the hour of their appearance 
with quite human interest. An animal is 
almost as susceptible to the temperament 
of a house as is a human actor. Applause 
stimulates him to do his best ; the lack of 
it casts him down utterly. Some tricks he 
likes to do — no one can tell just why — 
others, every whit as easy, require much 
coaxing and persuasion on the trainer's 
part. 
It must be remembered, when speaking 
of these animals thus from a higher stand- 
point than their every-day round of life, 
that few cast-iron tenets can be laid down 
