See that gray squirrel at the door of the fruit-shop whirling round and round so merrily within his wire wheel ! Being condemned to the treadmill , he makes it an amusement . Admirable philosophy ! Here comes a big , rough dog -- a countryman 's dog -- in search of his master , smelling at everybody 's heels and touching little Annie 's hand with his cold nose , but hurrying away , though she would fain have patted him . -- Success to your search , Fidelity ! -- And there sits a great yellow cat upon a window-sill , a very corpulent and comfortable cat , gazing at this transitory world with owl 's eyes , and making pithy comments , doubtless , or what appear such , to the silly beast . -- Oh , sage puss , make room for me beside you , and we will be a pair of philosophers . Here we see something to remind us of the town-crier and his ding-dong-bell . Look ! look at that great cloth spread out in the air , pictured all over with wild beasts , as if they had met together to choose a king , according to their custom in the days of Æsop . But they are choosing neither a king nor a President , else we should hear a most horrible snarling ! They have come from the deep woods and the wild mountains and the desert sands and the polar snows only to do homage to my little Annie . As we enter among them the great elephant makes us a bow in the best style of elephantine courtesy , bending lowly down his mountain bulk , with trunk abased and leg thrust out behind . Annie returns the salute , much to the gratification of the elephant , who is certainly the best-bred monster in the caravan . The lion and the lioness are busy with two beef-bones . The royal tiger , the beautiful , the untamable , keeps pacing his narrow cage with a haughty step , unmindful of the spectators or recalling the fierce deeds of his former life , when he was wont to leap forth upon such inferior animals from the jungles of Bengal . Here we see the very same wolf -- do not go near him , Annie ! -- the selfsame wolf that devoured little Red Riding-Hood and her grandmother . In the next cage a hyena from Egypt who has doubtless howled around the pyramids and a black bear from our own forests are fellow-prisoners and most excellent friends . Are there any two living creatures who have so few sympathies that they can not possibly be friends ?
Here sits a great white bear whom common observers would call a very stupid beast , though I perceive him to be only absorbed in contemplation ; he is thinking of his voyages on an iceberg , and of his comfortable home in the vicinity of the north pole , and XXXXX the little cubs whom he left rolling in the eternal snows .
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