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we felt sometimes disposed to ascribe rather to their meagre diet, than to the virtue of their training. Not indeed that there 
existed any real cause for alarm; for naturally gentle, timid, and peaceable, the beautiful Colossus has no means of protecting 
itself but with its heels; and although jammed into a corner, rarely even resorted to kicking as a mode of defence. Meek 
and resigned, it trusted to its speed alone, and having learned to its cost that “the race is not always to the swift,” wept 
such bitter tears, when vanquished, that but for its fleetness and rarity, the expression of its dove-like eyes might almost have 
disarmed me. 
Lid. ot berate Tom Vorth rie, carhibiing on Che Lootoguca, Cardins Lit anes Lane. 
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