AT THE ZOO.
A worthy professor once escorted a number of boys to the Zoo, in order to teach them natural history, as he maintained that this was a study greatly neglected by the middle classes. So the benevolent soul took his contingent to see the lions fed, and in his genial way he inquired of the keeper: "If one of theso gigantic and ferocious caruivoni contrived to emancipate itself and to hurl its prodigious strength iuto our midst, what steps would yon take?" "Bloomiu' loug 'uus," said the man. And then the boys tittered.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8940, 14 December 1907, Page 7
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95AT THE ZOO. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8940, 14 December 1907, Page 7
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