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STROLLING MENAGERIE AND ITS TURBANED TRAINERS
| All over the world a dancing bear or a performing monkey still attracts the attention of passers-by, and India has never lacked in respect of wayside entertainments. The two small simians with their bell-hung collars make an excellent advertisement as they bestride their hirsute mount, whose features are veiled in some apparatus of the show. The bear, too, has a smile for the camera |
SWIFT AND SINUOUS CRUELTY BURNING IN THE PARD
| Cheetahs, or hunting leopards, are natives of the Deccan, where they are trained for hunting the antelope. They are long-limbed, rough-haired animals, with blunt, only partially retractile claws. When loosed from the leash the cheetah springs on its prey with a swiftness exceeding that of any other mammal, and if it misses the kill seldom follows the quarry, but returns to its master |