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and it was thought advisable to relieve the bird from this 
miserable condition. The bird was turned out of the sack 
into the closet at the foot of the stairs ; the door of the 
closet could only be securely fastened from the inside, and 
a chair or stool had been used to prevent the bird making 
its escape. This powerful creature had, however, by 
jumping about, forced open the door and turned over the 
chair ; the noise of this upset, no doubt, caused me to wake 
up and forfeit a night’s rest. 
MY INTRODUCTION TO THE LATE FRANK BUCKLAND’s 
FATHER, THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. 
In Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural History, in the 
second series, p. 48, appears an account referring to 
‘‘ Billy,” the Hyaena, that was sent to his father by Dr. 
Burchell, the great African traveller. 
This animal was deposited by the Dean in the 
menagerie known as Exeter ’Change, and was afterwards 
removed with that collection to the Surrey Zoological 
Gardens, where it died on January 14, 1846. Upon its 
death I received a note from Dr. Buckland, then Dean of 
Westminster, requesting me to call on him. Early the 
following morning I proceeded to the cloisters at West- 
minster Abbey. I rang the bell at the small arched door- 
way, and the door was immediately partly opened by a 
young woman who asked me what I wanted. I told her I 
had a letter from the Dean who wished to see me, and 
that my name was Bartlett. The extraordinary grin on the 
face of the woman astonished me as she opened the door 
wide enough to . admit me, and, grinning in the most extra- 
ordinary manner, pointed to an object on the floor of the 
hall, apparently a man on his knees cleaning out what 
I afterwards understood to be a Dr. Arnit’s stove. To my 
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