There is a parrot , too , calling out , `` Pretty Poll ! Pretty Poll ! '' as we pass by . Foolish bird , to be talking about her prettiness to strangers , especially as she is not a pretty Poll , though gaudily dressed in green and yellow . If she had said , `` Pretty Annie , '' there would have been some sense in it . 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 . O 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 AEsop . 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 XXXXX his former life , when he was wont to leap forth upon such inferior animals , from the jungles of Bengal .
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