A BEAR'S HOBBY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 1

A BEAR'S HOBBY.

Mr F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S., rejently gave his second lecture ,on the ''Romance of* Animal' Life," at thLondon Institution. Tho ammthe zoo were the subject of J half of the lecture, am' <•- ed with excellent - -'?,>? teles of theirs - .vertljftS llce * ,? a f T«*stut-€'s.ahtl quaint rece- : -u-eeiligeh-ce-. Qrie will sulr^- Vl ml f s i thl ? white bear > w hich „*"%& - -!i- j h , atl ? *?***_ fo »- *ooii*fc !»' £. "!? -P artl ?ular hobby being -ladios^ ■!'\uhUl as and parasols-/ These Kb- ; tamed by exercising a little ingemfitv. jOn days when the -collecting* 5 ma -, ri a -rftl^fi^V^ H\ w6u,d r «?rve some !° f th , e fish ho Ead_ been given for din_«?&'^.^iP* 0 P l^ ari <l an effort of standing on Ins hind legs push ffl*iW**^n? «t: the top of ■his -bit Jrhei. hewpuldsit on Hishaunchres, looking miserable, until a lady with an umbrella would come along, seethe hS'nf^^S" l^ 001 * "thing, wmeoSb has-put lus fish where he can't get it." '.Then she would attempt to cash it //■%' Q m a m ° me , nt ' h i' a dexterous giab, Sammy and the umbrella would join company. In this way he often collected a dozen umbrellas and parasols m an afternoon, which he concealed in his bath. He was never al-" lowed to keep his collection,- lest ho might injure himself with the framework. About the giraffe, the lion, the pd can, the toad,, the hippopotamus, w tbe :"*ny lands of nionk^yp, tie £fl \ r ?\ had , ln *cresting things to sa>y and his hour's discourse ended far too scon for many of his audience.