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An aocount is given in a Paris paper of a visit of a hundred blind children to the Zoological Gardens of Xew York. The idea was to discover, on seeing, if wo may use the expression, if they could name animals which they knew of only from descriptions. "Where it was permissible the children wero allowed to touch the animals. Tiio first experiment was' majo with a Shetland ponj-. "It is a camel," one said. "I feel his hump." Another declared that it was a bear from tho roughness of the coat. But only ouo concluded that it was a horse. A camel was taken for a dtick, but whv, we are not told. With the aid of a ladder a little girl was seated on a giraffe. She declared it was a bird. When tho little blind girl was told that the giraffe walked on the ground, she declnred that it must bo nearly twenty feet in height. The elephant puzzled tho children most, especially his enormous legs and ears. Could he smell with a trunk so long? asked one, while another inquired if the ears were curtains. Afterwards they were put to sketch tho animals. Some of the drawings, wo read, were a great success, but most of tho outlines wero fantastic and apocalyptic.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1506, 31 July 1912, Page 3
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