BEHIND THE SCENES.

Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 4

BEHIND THE SCENES.

AT THE ZOO

(By T«M(I3 Brcx in ' The Daily Mt&n

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lii In h ili ol »i pissage a squa( mm kl\ moil mil took my hind in llpp'l llHjr<lS A>. nil 1 will) M\k, lift I-. i iln |w)i link "ho I<<] mo into a kitmi Hi hii i fuiii \i u-old oi.ingUlt Kid till klllliOll IS vl)<\rt> tllß >i-£ pis nil iK in pupiKHi win ypotis, <1( inlini s mil >n in i\ ot nteniN Jiiki i limn in (Jnld In. lod m e. to hm \l Ins (loquint gesture I ipniil ii, hi c uiliilli (lintp,) banana, nil tin n f,i iuli led mi biik again iVc bido linn uid iho keeper vmt to i <los<d dnoi, knocked, and ill ! Optn the. dooi, please"—and « i oo]iuj\ opt nut b\ Jininn, on* ""l i 1 ii of ili nip in/ees Siluu ' s,id tin keepei, and m unison e<h s,i„ , H j He handed Jimmy ji ip mil sud 1 (td join inend " Jimm dipped in ilie poo'x ind teader1\ inttd 1 iim\ H< split i l, a „aiia mto j tin mi<(,iiil jioi turn md Uim\, oa I toimn ind, silii (d the 'ni.illos* ff e I piodn <d i h uulkon lntl What M 1 this ioi' 'md J anin took it and iup«dA}ti lieuiiose flul then \ e, huh iipstans, i it ,_i( it tionted ( (go, of the >o-, Not tin oliinoi of a 1 aw (I it i u„il not the 'I "iho <h< \\<n>\ Kxdntiptrcan pin wit In in iso of oni md il><»< slinll uIU, iieuzied o1 'ins md inn, and i sort of (luiii'inur tint mi of them on i bond boomed-lion hko and ibious- lie 10 i ot Sandy, the groat Ol lIU'-OIU l/ll*

bandy -is strongly burred. ,Th& 6n» glorious adventure of liiis Ifl./ears w»» whence broke out of (-limbed a ti-PP, and built h>m in one night a. ivipvam whence I<> issued''■ultimatum* to tin' P.n\>is of Bii-opo. He could onl? In- driven buck by the "Minbia*u~6*i» hose. Two years (go bo turned oh bis old kerpcr, and nolo now ran ent • lair. Vint he is frbmlly oimmkli v. i'...' slriinpei' at the l»r. On hi* mm solicitation I lit iiir pipe, and .Sandy ",- .1 e.W t lilc-.v ■:•■•• thai |i<)riont<jtisc:in'tv as nitnl!', -n-t;o as I could cxl)aT,'a)"i(| ho shut lii- -.\v<»» in ecstasy, tun?d the smoke -'it hi,, ■palate, and thrtiblew it from h j - eos-n. 1 then trusted iindv u-itli th. i ; n r lianginjr on to tin boil nivs-11. .Half.A pipehi! per wlrfl'is Sandv's inr-nsijfe, and ! ; :<> ICina fron his nostrils is f<ome'.hint; to i-emem.be. When the pine was- lini>-bed Sai:\'- twisted out tltfl st;M>i and rel'iised.'tn surrender it. I misiht as well liae tried to unpick n .ship's oablo as to unloQse those jyea.t knotted lingers.

| 1 cannot tell Jiilf my 'ntortaimnent jhehiwl the scent at tT.-r- Zoo; of the lsiin:i:wiiiin, that.st raises i lilt.lt> -ivos- | pitnl in London (ejfrji/.kusy when Think | Holiday visitors e/ivo njp to canm-ora I a no! oran<re-iieel to the rfers), nor of the quarantine, where ev~tY new inmate of the jrardens is Ji\U until , proved free of disease-. ( eaiinl. pive | more than a line of welcome t>Mje , | little peccary who has ju.st arrived fj-Sfoi South >menea a„d has l,een t ri VO n a yPur,o- J erkshire |.„k as- a .omvanion lapmiKi. Joine-sickness; „,„. „„„,, t , a word of sympathy to the H;„-l )al .y .ape who has sore eyes a „d is ueinf- < i»ml in darkness And the,,, there is he inaU'i-hea-admire,J of overy Knfraflisl. who enters the C ar<lensU w ho has made him a nosf, ~„,, „ a tiontly «it» n hen- o PKS uli.lt- ],,,, wives rove at