he gave it its maize or sopped biscuit, and lifted up its wing to be tickled when he said, "Show your blanket, cocky;" a tiny negro marmoset that would sit on his shoulder and munch apples; the ratels that flung clumsy somersaults expressly for his amusement; the six-banded armadillo that trotted about almost as funnily on the tips of its toes; and the pretty little shy-eyed antelope that licked his hand when he gave it its crust, or rather, often, his crust.

Little Jollyman was very fond of trotting round with the "inside men" when they gave the beasts their straw and hay and other food.

Would you like to know how beasts are fed in a Travelling Menagerie? The proprietor of one of the largest menageries in the kingdom was kind enough to tell me lately, in order that I might not make any mistakes in this story, how he feeds his beasts.

Lions and tigers have each about twelve pounds a day (bones not reckoned) of bullocks' shins,

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hearts, and heads; leopards about five pounds each. The proprietor of this menagerie has to buy almost a quarter of a ton of meat for his flesh-eating beasts every day. Bears get meat only in very cold weather; at other times, like babies, they are fed on sop. Monkeys get sop, bread, rice, and fruit. Grass-eating animals get hay and corn and bread. All the animals are luckier than poor human animals-the colder the weather, the more food they get from their master. And then the visitors give them buns, biscuits, nuts, oranges, and so on. Otters and seals, of course, have to be fed on fish; and a tremendous lot they eat. Old "Tom," the seal that lived in the Regent's Park Gardens from 1852 to 1856, got through about three tons of fish in that time, and died at last of the fish-hooks he had swallowed with his whiting.

The racoon was also a great pet of little Jollyman's. It would eat raw eggs out of his hand. Little Jollyman did not see any harm in its eating

eggs, and used to laugh when Mr Smith or Barney said

"This, ladies and gentlemen, is the racoon, a native of North America. It is noted for its cunning: as 'cute as a 'coon, has become a proverb. You have heard, no doubt, of that very 'cute 'coon that elected to come down the tree when the American colonel pointed his gun at him, and said he meant to shoot. The racoon will eat shell-fish, and is especially fond of eggs. He will watch the turtle burying her eggs in the sand, and then go slily and dig up and devour the lot."

But little Jollyman did not relish the rest of the character of his pet, and tried hard to persuade himself that it was a calumny.

"Being most adroit in climbing, the racoon mounts to the hole in which the woodpecker has made her nest, and ruthlessly devours her young." Little Jollyman did not like to think that any of his pets killed other creatures.

Amongst the monkeys the marmoset was little

Jollyman's especial pet. He used to cuddle it, and cram its cage with hay, when it sat chattering its poor little teeth in cold weather, looking as miserable as a Lascar or a Hindoo in London streets in winter; but he thought all the monkeys great fun."

Jollyman's had an exceptionally fine collection of monkeys. Some were kept in separate cages, and others in a great common cage, in which a leafless tree, hung with bells, was set up for their gymnasium. They chased one another up and down this tree, ringing the bells "like mad," jabbering, grinning, snarling, pinching, biting, and pulling and swinging one another by the tail; and sometimes, when a young monkey saw a row of his elders dozing on a bough, he would jump slily on to the end of it, bring it down with all his might, tumbling off the drowsy, grave, and reverend signiors, and then scamper up to some high corner of the cage, from which he would look down, scratching himself and chuckling, with