Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 611
sh summer, and greablocks of ice are constantly kept in the pond, tjmake the water cool enough for their bath. Further down the row we com; to the lions antlionesses and the hyenas and a queer-looking yellow Syrian bear, and, backing against all these, oithe other side of the terrace, are the cages… … y^ THE SYRIAN BEAR. was made of pointed spikes, turned inward, one ofthe bears got out early one morning and nearlykilled a blacksmith who happened to cross his path ;and after that they were roofed in. The whitebear and his wife once had two little ones,—soft,pinky creatures,—but the unnatural…
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