REMINISCENCES FROM THE MELBOURNE ZOO. 
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The Pride of Persia. 
500 cats in the tank. Others tell how they once caught them in scores, 
week in and week out. They used to be so plentiful among the trees 
at the Zoo that Mr. Wilkie always reckoned on a bag of eight or nine 
any night he went out with his gun, but now one is very seldom seen 
there. 
