The curly-haired hen . guars, panthers, leopards, all thebig cat family, lynx, onca, tiger cat. Bears of all kinds, grizzly,grey, black, and white. Then came wolves, foxes, coyotes, infact the whole series of the dog tribe with every possible domes-tic variety. In little barred cages was a collection of smaller carnivorousanimals and rodents. In a husre room all the monkeys from thebig gorilla to the minute ouistiti or witsit, were installed; theysquabbled, pulled one anothers tails, bit one another, utteredpiercing cries. There were constant battles going on in thatcorner. SIRBOOUM^SCIRCUS 65
The curly-haired hen . guars, panthers, leopards, all thebig cat family, lynx, onca, tiger cat. Bears of all kinds, grizzly,grey, black, and white. Then came wolves, foxes, coyotes, infact the whole series of the dog tribe with every possible domes-tic variety. In little barred cages was a collection of smaller carnivorousanimals and rodents. In a husre room all the monkeys from thebig gorilla to the minute ouistiti or witsit, were installed; theysquabbled, pulled one anothers tails, bit one another, utteredpiercing cries. There were constant battles going on in thatcorner. SIRBOOUM^SCIRCUS 65 Then in an immense aviary were all the birds of creation,divided into classes, from the humming-bird, the size of a hornet,to the ostrich. This was, to tell the truth, the part that inter-ested Mother Etienne most of all. She was more used tocreatures of this kind, they reminded her of her beloved poultry-yard. In spite of the signs put up everywhere, Do not feedthe animals, the good woman who had purposely filled her. basket with cakes threw them in indiscriminately. There wereenough for all the animals she passed. First she threw someto the lions. The lions took no notice, at which she was mostsurprised. Her idea in offering the cakes was to see if the ani- 66 THE CURL Y-H AIRED HEN mals were hungry and to find out that way how they weretreated. Miss Booum, who was acting as her guide, was much amusedat her astonishment and could not resist saying: Madame, to offer a cream bun to a tiger is like offering
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