THE HIPPOPOTAMUS 
she would soon have given her child proper nourishment. ISTo 
animal would give her young ‘ Nature’s cordial ’ in the excited 
state the poor creature must have been in, seeing her babe taken 
from her ; no one except her keeper should have been allowed 
to have seen her for a week or two. In compassion for the 
mother and child, this time the writer hopes they will be 
allowed retirement. “A Friend to Animals.” 
The female, ‘‘Dil,” presented by the Viceroy of Egypt 
in 1854, was placed with “ Obaysch ” in the same building. 
The first young one was born February 21, 1871, and died 
two days after its birth. She had a second young one 
born January 6, 1872, and which died on January 10. 
The third was born on November 5, 1872, and named 
“Guy Fawkes.” For some considerable time it was 
uncertain of what sex this animal was, but it turned out 
at last to be a female. She is still living, and when a few 
months over five years old was as large as her mother ; in 
fact, if it had not been for the small development of the 
tusks and a smaller head it would have been difficult to 
distinguish the mother from daughter. She eventually 
became a much larger animal than her mother. 
CLEANING THE HIPPOPOTAMUS’S POND. 
On a fine and mild morning at the end of one 
November I arranged to have the tank of Mrs. Hippo- 
potamus’s house emptied and cleaned, and in order to 
manage this it was found necessary to let her and Miss 
Guy out into the }^ard. I had successfully carried out 
this operation upon three previous occasions. On the 
first occasion the mother and young one did not notice 
the large tank of water, but passed the time in the yard 
eating the food that had been placed there to amuse them 
and to keep them from the water. Upon the second 
occasion the mother was not content to remain on land, but 
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