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Jumping Giraffes

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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It usecV to be an amusement, and also a duty, to me to try and show the animáis to nativo gentlemen when they came from their country seats to vlsit Calcutta, and I invariably invited them to come with me to see the zoo, says a writer in Longman's Magazine. I think that the g-iraffes puzzled them most. One fine old Hindoo nobleman, ■with whom I have many a time been out tiger shooting on his own ty, suggested that the giraffe was a j new sort of tiger, but he was comforted and convinced when he saw them eat the branch of a tree from my hand. I wisli that he could have been present to witness a performance by this pair of giraffes, which I did not see myself, though fortunately Lord 'illiam Beresford saw it and told me of it. On the morning of the queen"s birthday Beresford was riding past thê giraffe inclosure when a feu de joie was fired by the soldiers of a native infantry regiment, whose quarters are not far from the zoo. At the first round of the uring the giraffes were startlcd. When the second round came they took to their heels i and jumped cleun óver thefenee of upright gurran or wuttle sticks, about ten feet high, that surrounded their inclosure. When the third round came the giraffes were so puzzled that they fcurned round and popped over the fence again and scught rcfuge in the house in j which they were lodged atnight. Itisa great pity that a sportsman and rider , like Lord William Iieresford, who saw j this strange sight, had not a mount on I one of the giraffes.

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Ann Arbor Courier