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to haave fare tussles with his crocodile-. Thevwere valuable as property, and when, out of spite, they took to attempting suicide by starvation, he had them ticd up hrmly and fod forcibly with a long pole @ /e ramrod. | never remember being 30 obstinate about my dinner as that @ and if I had, from what I recollect of him, 1 don't beljove my worthy preceptor would have done as Mr, Jamrach did. 1 neverheardof his using any stick m that way. Beyond all this, oo, 1t should be observed that the crocodile has three distinet lids to cach eve, whereby he s cquipped for the performe- ance of six separate and cutirely distinet winks of the single variety, and an incaleulable number of the more compli- cated sort by com- bination. Now the wink is the infalli- ble sion of a frivo- Pous and larky nature, and m dis-

clatmingz all relation- ship with the crocodile I need say no more than this.

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I often wonder what Al RN Y these animals think of the e eFR

band which plays here in the

summer. The coming of the

warm season 1s a time of joy, at any rate to the more tropical varictics, and i feeims 4 pity to make it sad with a band, Perhaps 1t s done on the great principle of universal compensation already spoken of. Not that Co the band isn't a good one, you should understand, R T

but a band of any sort before dinner is an infliction.

Music is rather a nuisance (o g hungry man, and its Proper occasion arrives after a good dinner. Lions and tivers have ton times the capacity for hunger granted to man, and should be considered accordinglyv. Ilerein do T peak with fecling + for on several day - of the week a German bad plavs near the corner of my =treet in the hungricst hour of the twenty-four, and on all the otlier afternoons the voung Lady next door. who is lcarning

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