YOUNG ANIMALS AT THE ZOO 
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part of the English Constitution, was the arrival of a 
young “ gnu.” It was even uglier than its mother, 
whose compound features of a horse’s body, a bull’s 
horns, and a goat’s beard combine to make her one 
of the strangest beasts existing. The infant was 
exactly like its mamma, minus the horns, but plus 
a high nose, and a curly beard, which makes it in 
profile rather like a portrait of Sennacherib or 
Shalmanezar. Another most beautiful calf of the 
wild cattle, a cross between the Chartley bull and the 
white cow from the Bangor herd, is as pretty and 
pleasing as the gnu calf is ugly. But in each case 
the mother is vastly proud of its infant, and they are 
probably the best judges of what their offspring 
should be. 
