SIXPENCE IN THE SLOT AT THE ZOO
The sea-lions are very popular at the London Zoo just now, because anybody can turn keeper and feed them. Any.body, that is to say, with sixpence to spare. The latest novelty is a fish in the slot machine, and it is bard to say who is more diverted by it, the'visitors or the .sea-lions. As the sea-lions get the fish as well as the fun no doubt they think theirs is the best of the joke. The device has been thought out by Mr. G. H. Baillie, consulting engineer to the Zoo. It is an electrical machine fixed to the railings of the sea-lions’ pond. You put sixpence in the slot, and first a fog-horn sounds that brings all the sea-lions in a joyful hurry, turning cart-wheels, and then sitting up on their flappers. Then a' piece of fish darts out of the machine, describes an are in the air and drops. The result is a Westminster Pancake Scramble, and a great deal of splashing and fun. Of course in these hard times sixpence is sixpence.. Perhaps Air. Baillla may think out something that will toss out a threepenny herring. In the meantime, here Is a point where holiday uncles and aunts can become more popular than ever.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 19
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