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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
" I could not. I lay stiff and cold and
barely conscious of the strange splendour
I saw around me. At last I had performed
the circuit back to the hand that first took me,
and I saw something sharp and glittering
descend upon me as if to cut me into two pieces.
Then followed two or three more blows that
nearly stunned me again, and I became
liberated from my prison of ice, in which the
false admiring sheet of water had enveloped
me, after my fickle friends, the sunbeams, had
lulled me to sleep. The man breathed gently
and kindly upon me, which quickened me,
and now I could hear what he said: ’ Ladies
and gentlemen, is it not most extraordinary.
A little newt has been hybernating in some
stream, and become enveloped with an icy
coating. Extremely pretty! Life in death! and
now he revives at this gay and festive season
—Sir Twedick’s dinner-party! "
"’ But look, the poor little thing has lost
his caudal appendage!’ laughed a pretty and
merry young lady, on whose flower-decked
bosom I longed to nestle to revive myself
completely.
"’ Lost his what ?’ asked an old lady who
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