. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. of bears at the Zoo is a large and varied one, and is made up chieflyIndian ^J donation. Many travellers bring home with them pet baby bears,Isabelline but as they advance in age theygrow less tractable, and whenfull grown lose their good temper altogetherand become dangerous; then they are hurriedoff to the Zoo. In an article in theFrench Encyclopasdia ( Chant) the historyof an unmusical procession at Brussels isnarrated. A part of the show consistedof a car, in which was an organ playedby a bear. Instead of pipes, the inst
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. of bears at the Zoo is a large and varied one, and is made up chieflyIndian ^J donation. Many travellers bring home with them pet baby bears,Isabelline but as they advance in age theygrow less tractable, and whenfull grown lose their good temper altogetherand become dangerous; then they are hurriedoff to the Zoo. In an article in theFrench Encyclopasdia ( Chant) the historyof an unmusical procession at Brussels isnarrated. A part of the show consistedof a car, in which was an organ playedby a bear. Instead of pipes, the instrumentcontained a collection of cats, each confinedseparately in a kind of narrow case sothat they could not move; but their tailswere held upright and attached to thejacks in such a manner that, when the beartouched the keys, he pulled the tails ofthe parties enclosed and produced a mostmellifluous mewing and wailing, in theC clef we suppose, treble, counter-tenor, organist himself, perhaps being invitedby the same machinery, utters a bass ISABELLINE BEAR. 214 Zoo Notes 215
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