WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
(to keep them in safety) placed them in a glass jar for 
the night. The curator on the following morning finding 
them in his room, and not knowing they were alive, filled 
up the jar with spirits ; he was startled, as also were these 
unlucky dwellers in water, who, for the advancement of 
science, unfortunately lost their lives by imbibing too 
large a quantity of alcohol. 
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