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Thus they reached the lion-house

There had been a e

number of Forsy'--that is, of well-dressed people who kept carriages

had brought them on to the Zoo, so as to haveback to Rutland Gate or Bryanston Square

"Let's go on to the Zoo," they had said to each other; "it'll be great

fun!" It was a shilling day; and there would not be all those horrid

coes they were collected in roatching

the tawny, ravenous beasts behind the bars await their only pleasure

of the four-and-twenty hours The hungrier the beast, the greater the

fascination But whether because the spectators envied his appetite,

or,

Jolyon could not tell Re brute, that tiger!" "Oh, what a love! Look at his little

o too near, mother"

And frequently, with little pats, one or another would clap their hands

to their pockets behind and look round, as though expecting young Jolyon

or so person to relieve them of the contents

A well-fed h his teeth: "It's