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to sing (and taking a very long time over 1t) practises her scales. T oshould ke to have met that German band when Towas—say a tiger, and very hunerv, But the voung lady who will never learn to simg s mhnitely worse, and deserves no constderation at all. T should like an opportunity ol attacking her 4s i Imouse,

Old Sir John Maundevile 13 a4 man onc would hike to have met. I would do a great deal—

cven unto paying at the

vale—to mspect a zoo- logical garden furnished with a good sclection of

Sir John's discoveries, I

should like, for mstance,

to sce his *wylde Gees, that han 2 IMedes” They arc not found m many poultry-yards nowadays, and have become swans on i sienisc 1 should like, too, to sce that * fulle

wlonous Best " with a black head and three

lono horns, *trenchant e {ront, scharpe as a Sword,” with which he *slecthe the Olifaunt.” Again, I think I should like to sce those * Ipotaynes, that dwellen sometyme 1 the Watre and sometyme on the Lond ;. and thei ben half Man and half Hors,” and comparce them with the blithesome hippopotamus as we now sce him in our own Zoo. T should like to have the opinion of the man end on his equine hinder half, and to cc how he wallied : for, unlike the centaur, the “ipotavne " had onlyv two lees, | should like to get a **cokadrille” as Maundevile's book pictures him, with long legs and cars like a donkey's, and show him to the sleepy alligators in the reptile house, by

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