BOOK OF NA TURA L HIS TOR V. 5 3 
THE RHINOCEROS. 
“You have a very hard 
name, and I cannot call you 
pretty. You look like a great, 
awkward pig, wearing the skin 
of some other larger animal, 
and so it does not fit you well ; 
but though pigs often have 
tusks in their under jaw, you 
carry yours on your nose.” If 
the rhinoceros could speak, he 
would say : “ Ugly though I 
am, I do no harm to any 
one if I am let alone. I live in 
a country where there are plenty 
of wild beasts who would soon 
