WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
and sugar, wrapped him up in flannel, and sent him back 
to Liverpool, with a note to say I could not purchase him, 
as none of the keepers would be troubled with such a 
baby, and I felt sure the poor little fellow would die if 
placed in the collection. 
A day or two afterwards I was surprised to receive the 
same small box, and, more so, to find the unfortunate little 
KED filVEE HOG. 
pig inside it, and a note from Cross to say the animal was 
no use to him — he could not be bothered with it, — and as 
I declined to purchase it for the Society he begged me to 
accept it, and do what I pleased with it. 
“ I felt hurt to find this poor little fellow thus an outcast 
and apparently friendless. 
‘‘ I held him in my hands and took him at once into my 
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