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cursions it dived and fished in the small lagoons 
left by the tide, and the provision of a further supply 
was of course a delightful occupation to the children, 
to whom the razorbill’s unfailing appetite was a valid 
reason for being on the shore and in the water at all 
hours. This curious alliance lasted for some nine or 
ten days, when the bird was choked by its food in a 
rather odd way. One of the children was holding in 
one hand a fiat-fish, which was about to be cut up 
into pieces of a size more suited to the size of the 
razorbill’s throat. The bird was sitting on her other 
hand at the time, and reaching across seized the fish 
by the head, jerked it from her hand, and swallowed 
it. But though not choked at the time, it never re- 
covered the effects of its surfeit of flounder, and 
died greatly lamented on the following day. 
The penguin can be tamed almost as easily, or 
rather are often tame from the first. The keeper of 
the diving-birds, like many others at the Zoological 
Gardens, is an East Anglian, coming from one of the 
most secluded and least aquatic districts of Central 
Suffolk. But the instinct for the care of animals, from 
cart-horses down to geese and game-bantams, is innate 
in the intelligent Suffolk and Norfolk countryman ; 
and Waterman usually has at least one penguin 
which is almost as companionable as a child. Prince, 
a rock-hopper penguin from New Zealand, was perhaps 
the most amusing and interesting of these amphibious 
pets. It was the owner of a smart red flannel jacket 
with yellow facings, which had been presented to it 
