Noah's ark or 'Mornings in the zoo' Author:Phil Robinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A WORK ON NATURAL HISTORY, ILLUSTRATED FROM THE LIFE A NOAH'S ARK FOR GROWN-UP CHILDREN TWO VISIONS OF FREEDO... more »M ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE ANIMALS ARE THE THINGS HAPPY? BITTERNESS OF CAGES TO TYRANTS MORAL OF THE CAPE HUNTING- DOG THE SATISFACTION OF NOT BEING EATEN THE DIGNITY OF EXTINCTION, WITH PARTICULAR APPLICATION TO THE BADGER A PRACTICAL BEAST AND PICTURESQUE. O a great number of visitors the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park are interesting because they afford a constant succession of surprises, and so they go round the great menagerie exploding, " Oh ! here's an elephant," " Oh ! here's an ostrich," " Oh ! here's a hippopotamus." With this class riding on camels and elephants, bear-feeding and refreshments for themselves, constitute a legitimate portion of the day's proceedings, and with one thing and another they invariably manage to make the day's outing one of very evident enjoyment. To an equally large number, the Zoo is interesting because in a single morning it turns hundreds of old ideas into as many new facts, and binds up for them, as it were, into one volume, superbly illustrated from A Volume the life, all the books of Natural History and travel ' that they have ever read, and sets before them on one life- great panoramic canvas all the pictures of the animal world they have ever looked at . Each beast and bird in turn is recognized by some association already in the mind. It stands there as an old symbol verified. And so, with this class of visitors, the morning passes in a plea- sant process of translating off into fact from the great book open before them chapter after chapter of the romances of wild life that they have been familiar with from childhood. It is not with them as with the o...« less