Animals And Music

A violinist was playing various airs before the eages of the animáis. The bow, which had been passing backward and forward half drowsily, took up a gait that would have distanced oue of the deer in the pen by tho buffaloes' yard. Then there was a transformation scène in the home of the lioness as rapid and as complete as that of the tune, The cubswent intoecstacies. They rolled about, jnmped, feil overone another, raced over their mother's recninbent body, and danced unrebuked on het head. They ceased their tantrums only with the ceasing of the music. Then they gathered at the front bars of the cage again and silently and pathetically pleaded for more. Their plea was snccessful, and in response to the delicate flattery conveyed by their manner the player gave the lullaby once more. They simply sat and listened to it as silently as they had at the firat. The transition to the jig music was once more made speedily. Thefirst notê of the lively air had barely left the violin before its riotous contagión had once more caught the cubs. They rollicked and rolled abont and stopped only when the professor, fearing to tira their httle hmbs, took ms bow irom his fiddle and told theni they had danced enough for debutantes. The hyena is an uncanny brute. His very appearance goes a great way toward bcaring out charges of graveyard robbery brought against him. He has no musió in his soul nor room for auy. Sweet sounds are to him so antipodal tG everything in his nature that they inspire him Nvith nothing but fear, and the most abject fear at that. When Professor Baker tried to interest the two skulking hyenas in his performance on the fioiin, theybegan trembling visibly at the first note's utterance, and then as the musio swelled they sought the faxthermost side of their prison and tried their best to squeeze their ungainly bodies through the bars to escape the