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natural preference, T believe, forany creature i oo ostate of imperfect civilization, as may b judged from the tastes of the human hoy. Mud, argues the human boy, is soft, mild, and soothing to the touch; also it is warm and comforting, cqually in its liquid or semi-liquid state, and when forming a solid extra-cutancous deposit. Whercfore the human boy, following his proper instinets, mudlarks. Is it this pre- dilection for mud which leads all these four cephants persistently to ignore the ool serapers placed at the doors o the clephant- house for their accommodation? Look —at them. They are obviously intended for the use of clephants, and for that of no lesser

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phants would scrape ther feet: for the clephant - 5 placable Tellow, always anxious Lo please | e hul as it is they never dooso, and all L those many hundredweights of ron stand uscless for it never cirikes o man entering the house to use an article ol convenience o so obviously intended [or an clephant. " But in the winter, though one may not meet him outside, one may hold quitc an improving con versation with the elephant i bis

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