Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 689
os in amenagerie, a horn such as you willfind in most of the pictures of theanimal. In captivity, the rhinoce-ros rubs his horn against all thestone walls or iron bars that he canreach, and so keeps it pretty wellworn down. It looks more like ahorny lump on his nose than any-thing else. I suppose… … THE RHINOCEROS. to rip and tear, he uses his horn on what he|can find, even if it be stone or iron. While l877-l A VILLAGE OF WILD BEASTS. 657 1 was watching him, he began banging his greathead against his iron bars, and the concussionseemed to shake the building. Bang! bang!bang! he went, like a…
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