APES 
CHIMPANZEE STRENGTH. 
The nearly adult female in the Society’s collection was 
able to bend and tear out the iron bars of a den sufficiently 
strong to hold a lion. 
Bartlett’s baby. 
Welcome, little Stranger ! You 
Are tlie darling of tlie Zoo, 
Bartlett’s babe, the public pet. 
Lucky, lucky Zoo to get, 
At a cost scarce worth the mention. 
Living proof beyond contention 
Of — oh ! well, of whatsoever 
Savants sage and critics clever. 
On their controversial mettle 
May- — or maybe may not — settle. 
Six-and-twenty years ago 
(Buffers elderly may know) 
Bose the great Gorilla feud ; 
Dr. Gray was leather rude. 
Bather on Du Chaillu down. 
And the shindy stirred the Town. 
Owen, great on brains and bones, 
Lectured it in learned tones ; 
Huxley to the battle rushed ; 
Mutually they “pished” and “tushed” 
In that calm and courteous way 
Savants liave, when they’re in fray. 
Mr. Punch, with ample reason, 
Called you “Lion of the Season,” 
Great Gorilla. Now ’tis plain 
The old fame revives again. 
Happy Bartlett ! Lucky Ape ! 
Fortune comes in curious shape. 
You perchance, oh simian child ! 
Might have roamed the Afric wild, 
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