Upon the Surry side of Waterloo Bridge, London, may be daily seen a cage, about five feet square, con¬ 
taining the Quadrupeds and Birds which are represented in the above engraving. The keeper of this collection, 
John Austin, states that he has employed seventeen years in the business of training creatures of opposite natures 
to live together in content and affection. And those years have not been unprofitably employed. It is not too much 
to believe that many a person who has given his half-penny to look upon this show, may have had his mind awak¬ 
ened to the extraordinary effects of habit and gentle discipline, when he has thus seen the cat, the rat, the mouse, the 
hawk, the rabbit, the guinea-pig, the owl, the pigeon, the starling, the sparrow, the rook, and the fox, each enjoying, as 
far as can be enjoyed in confinement, its respective mode of life, in the company of others—the weak without fear, 
and the strong without desire to injure. It is impossible to imagine any prettier exhibition of kindness than is here 
shown ; the rabbit and the pigeon playfully contending for a lock of hair to make up their nests; the sparrow some¬ 
times perched on the head of the cat, and sometimes on that of the owl ; and the mice playing about with perfect 
indifference to the presence of the cat, hawk, or owl .—See Library of Entertaining Knowledge. 
