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204 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
eyes. He looks like a sage fakeer, some kind
of devotee. He may interpret our desire to
those that can procure us some sweet music
occasionally. We ought surely to have some
compensation for the loss of the sweetest of
all gifts, liberty ! "
As this last word dropped in pleasing accents
upon my ear, I awoke to consciousness. It is
a word which never fails to rouse the most
lethargic being in the world. " Liberty,
liberty!" I reiterated to myself. " What do
they want ? their liberty ! No, my fine fellows !
that would never do in these gardens; but a
song about liberty would not harm you."
Will you whistle it to them, kind reader, if
you are a fellow of the Zoological Society ?
Try it on a Sunday, when no strangers are
admitted. ’Twould be a charity.
Sutler & Tuter, The Selwood Printing Woriu. Fronw. ud London.
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