THE YOUNG GIRAFFE. 
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place in the after part of the day. Still continue to boil the milk, 
and give prepared chalk in it as before. 
24 th . — All right — the faeces perfectly natural, and the little fel- 
low as playful as a kitten. The mother will not yet suffer him to 
touch her udder, although she is a little more reconciled to his pre- 
sence. We thought of forcing her, and we fixed a staple accord- 
ingly, but when we viewed her long and slender legs, and calculated 
the resistance that she would make, we were afraid. We tried in 
every way to coax her to let us milk her; but she would not permit 
us to touch her udder. Boil the milk, but omit the chalk. 
25th . — No dung during last night, and none up to the noon of 
to-day. Boil only half the milk, and add the rest to it. With the 
exception of this constipation, the animal seems perfectly well. 
It is as playful as ever, and teazes us in order to be fed. He is 
happy when we are playing with him and coaxing him. 
2 6th . — A very little bit of dung. Boil only one-fourth of the 
milk. The day passed over, and there was no evacuation. If there 
is none during the night, give early to-morrow morning two ounces 
of olive oil mixed with half an ounce of the syrup of buckthorn. 
Not the slightest appearance of illness. 
27 th . — No evacuation having taken place, the oil and the buck- 
thorn were given about nine o’clock in the morning. About ten 
the bowels began to be acted upon spontaneously, or by means of 
the physic. There was not the slightest expression of pain, and 
the animal was as playful as before. The discharge continuing dur- 
ing the afternoon, the whole of the milk was boiled, and the chalk 
again had recourse to. At night he was as eager as ever for his 
supper, and sucked heartily at the milk thus prepared. He was as 
playful as he had ever been, and, with the exception of a slight but 
frequent purging, and which we hoped the boiled milk and chalk 
would subdue, there was not the least suspicion of illness. 
28 th . — He had selected his favourite corner, and a keeper, as had 
been the case from the time of his birth, sat up with him. The little 
fellow stirred not from the time of the keeper’s'taking his post until 
two o’clock, and, perhaps, he would not have stirred then, but the 
keeper had been ordered to give him some boiled milk with chalk 
at that time. He refused to take it. This, however, was not regarded, 
for he had begun to have a will of his own, and would not be fed 
by any one but his first and proper keeper. At four o’clock the 
watching keeper again offered him some milk, which he also refused; 
but as this had happened twice or thrice before, no notice was 
taken of it. 
At six o’clock he took some boiled milk from his own keeper as 
eagerly and cheerfully as ever. The purging continued, small in 
quantity, and of the same character ; but there was nothing about 
