In a cage near by (for there is quite a little menagerie here) are three small Sapajous, {90} two of which belong to the island; as abject and selfish as monkeys usually are, and as uninteresting; save for the plain signs which they give of being actuated by more than instinct,by a 'reasoning' power exactly like in kind, though not equal in degree, to that of man.

Speaking of spiders,here are two Spider-Crabs, the very monkeys of this aqueous menagerie.

This cursed menagerie has overturned everything!

Soldiers, guards, engineers, travellers, and crowds of natives surrounded me, and at every station the guard's van, with my novel menagerie, was the centre of attraction.

I had never met the officer, and knew nothing about him or his reputation, and merely lumped him in with the rest as an additional unit in an overcrowded menagerie.

For while there have always been prison camps, have there ever beenat least, since Romesuch menageries as these!

Mr. Editor,Some one of your readers may be interested in knowing that there was a royal menagerie in the Tower of London in the reign of Edward III.

This put him into such bad odour with his family that he hurried off to the dogsand a goodly sized menagerie besides, if the records of the inebriate's asylum are to be credited.

It was a splendid menagerie, and all the work of his own hands.

It will be rather amusinga kind of menagerie which, under less skilful guidance than Sir Stephen's, might be sure to disagree and fight.

He took his art lightly, and lived, in Vasari's phrase, "free from care," having such beguilements as a tame menagerie (Leonardo, it will be remembered, loved animals too and had a habit of buying small caged birds in order to set them free), and two or three dining clubs, the members of which vied with each other in devising curious and exotic dishes.