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of a long and thirsty life at five or six quarts. If he lived a little longer he would probably add whisky. He 1s also provident in the matter of food. He feeds on his hump. T see an opportunity of dragging in a joke just here about a perpetually sulky man doing the same, but I refrain. T take the occasion to renounce and disclaim all intention of saying anything about the morose ——\ camel always 7

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Ihe only variation in the facial expression of AV )/ / the camel takes place when he eats. Ordinarily (a7 X the camel wears an mmmutable, deceptive, stupid, , N ( | ) good-natured grin. This 55 ?\‘ 1 RN ! IS 4 wise provision of

Nature, leading people totrust and approach him, and giving him opportunities to gnaw themr faces off with suddenness and less difficulty 5 or guilclessly to manceuvre the vietim near a wall, against which he can rub him and smash him flat,

His feeding manners are vulgar, although superior to the tiger’s. When he eats he uses his immense lips first as fingers to lift the desired dainty. Then he munches in a z1g-zag, using alternately his right upper tecth on his left lower, and oe versd, and swinging his lips riotously. And he chucks up his nose, taking full advan- tage of his length of neck in swallow- mny.

SECOND. Here at the Zoo probably the first of the camels to attract the visitors’ attention is Bob the Bactrian, mn his semi-detached villa under the clock.

Bob the Bactrian is a handsome old ruffian when his coat is in full bloom. He sheds twenty-four pounds of hair every year - and a pound of camel-hair is a good deal. Itis frightful to think of the miles of water- colour sketches which might be perpetrated with the brushes made from twenty- four pounds of camel-hair Selt the keeper has sufficien: of 1t by him to weave enougl. cloth to clothe a regiment- - - LKL, and with vood raiment.

[ think Bob is a little vain of his fine beard and long hair. He poses about i picturesque attitudes when 1t s in good condition, and nothing short of a biscuit will make him disturb the curve of his neck. Bob is a military character—he came from Afghanistan —and carries out the part with great FOURTIL completeness.

FIEEDING ! MANNLER THIE FIRST.