TIIE OCELOT. 
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years old, and, to the horror of all the by¬ 
standers, the ocelot appeared to seize the 
child by the neck. This was, however, in¬ 
tended merely as play; for neither her sharp 
teeth nor crooked talons inflicted the slight¬ 
est injury; and, after tumbling over one 
another more than once, the child was taken 
up severely frightened, hut noway hurt.’ 
Another adventure with an ocelot turned 
out much more tragically. A French gen¬ 
tleman had one in his possession for more 
than three years, which had always appeared 
perfectly gentle, and was so tame that it 
had been allowed .the range of the house 
and garden as freely as a domestic cat. One 
evening, as the ocelot was playing by the 
fire with a child of three years old who had 
often frolicked with it before, the animal 
seemed to become irritated, and, seizing the 
little girl by the throat, killed it before any 
assistance could he given.’* 
Kate shuddered. “What a frightful 
death!” 
“I wonder what they did with the crea¬ 
ture,” said Sidney. 
“ I believe it was sent to the great mena¬ 
gerie at Paris,—the Jardin des Plantes,” 
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