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ORPHEUS AT THE ZOO 
strong discordant note was struck. The scene at this 
time was extremely amusing. The prairie wolves 
next door sat down to listen, the African jackals sat 
on a shelf and watched, and the performance was 
overlooked from a distance by a nervous but highly 
interested row of foxes of various sizes and colours, 
all sitting on the party-walls which divide their cages 
from the wolves and dingoes. It was like a picture 
from an illustrated edition of JEsop' s Fables . The 
foxes in the large cages came forward readily to listen 
to the music, though the usual experiment of striking 
a discord startled them greatly. But the rough fox 
from Demerara, in a small cage behind the building, 
was so violently alarmed that the keeper requested 
that the music might cease, for fear the creature 
should “have a fit,” to which ailment it appears 
that foxes and wolves are very subject. As might 
be expected, the sheep found pleasure in sounds which 
terrified the wolves. The burrhel , or wild sheep of 
the Himalayas, all came forward to listen, their ears 
pointed forward to catch the sounds. Some even 
stood up, and placing their fore-feet against the 
palings, stretched their necks in the direction of the 
music. Our violinist appropriately chose “ The 
Shepherd’s Call ” in William Tell , and this served to 
engage their intention more than “ The Keel Row ” or 
any more violent airs. Like almost all other creatures, 
they were startled at a discord. In the row of sheep- 
sheds, the music drew out all the inmates, the 
Markhor and the Cretan ibex coming forward to 
