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habits do not misrepresent his exterior. He 
has a large and clumsy head, set on a stiff, 
short neck; his body is high before and low 
behind, and his hair, when he has any, is stiff 
and coarse, with a bristly mane running 
along the ridge of the backbone; a short 
stiff tail and an awkward gait. Add to 
these characteristics his malignant blue eyes, 
with their pupils elliptical above and round 
below, and gleaming in the dark like sul¬ 
phur-flames, his unspeakably filthy habits 
and his horrible voice, and you have the 
picture of as hateful an animal as can well 
be imagined.” 
“I should think as much !” said Sidney. 
“And yet,” observed Annie, “I saw one 
that did seem at least to be good-natured. 
Don’t you remember, Richard ?—the one that 
fed the bear?” 
“What was that?” asked Miss Winston. 
“ It was while you were gone to Hew York 
last summer,” replied Annie. “Grand¬ 
father took us all to the menagerie at the 
village, in which was a cage containing two 
leopards, a hear and two hyenas. They all 
seemed on good terms enough; hut the bear, 
who was chained up at the hack of the 
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