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184 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
in me a growing desire to see once more my
father and mother; till one morning early, while
the little damsel was still in bed, I went out
alone into the wood to seek my parents,
intending to return before Aggy should wake. But
I was caught in a trap laid by horrid poachers,
who exist in great numbers in the Black Forest,
and by them was taken to the town of Cologne,,
where I was put into the Zoological Gardens
close by, for the first time in my life a real
captive. I had thought myself very hardly
used when I was in the house of little Aggy
who had saved me; but now my life was an
hourly torture to me. Once so free, now so
helpless! And my confinement nearly killed
me. For three long weeks I lay ill, and daily
expected, and wished for, death. But I rallied,
and in spite of myself, again became strong.
Through the bars of my cage I could see the
shining river, and beyond it the beautiful
country. Oh, how I longed once more to be
free to scamper about there! But, alas ! that
will never be my lot again ! "
"Poor fellow!" I thought. "Who can
wonder that he is mournful ? How sad, how
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