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YOUNG ANIMALS AT THE ZOO. 
Artemis, protectress of all young wild-beasts, should 
be honoured with a statue at the Zoo ; for the cages 
are yearly filled by the graceful young of wild creatures 
native to every quarter of the globe. The greater 
number are born in the menagerie, honest little British 
lions and the rest, of the true Cockney breed. Others 
come from the Gardens on the Continent, notably 
from Amsterdam, where, for some reason, the wild- 
beast farm thrives amazingly ; and others, mainly the 
whelps of the fierce carnivora, are the gifts of Indian 
rajahs or of African sultans to the Empress of India, 
or captured by English sportsmen in their distant 
forays among the beasts of prey. By mere coinci- 
dence, the Lion House has lately been almost re- 
stocked by gifts which have been part of the tribute 
from the East to the West since the days of Roman 
Proconsuls. Five of the new arrivals were cubs, all of 
rare beauty of form and colouring, and in the finest 
health and condition. Three young tigers presented 
to the Princess Henry of Battenberg by the Nawab 
Sir Asmanjah had reached the Gardens only twenty- 
