The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

beWur Motner-OpeusE!e0 toncS.
And now" said the watchman OF the
Geological Park after he had let out the
last belated visitors, a tired mo, her and her
two children. whose eyee we're still big
with wonder. "it's time for the animals
to 60 TO sleep"
1t was only q p. NJ. of All autumn day
that had been filed with Sunshine and
braoing GOODNESS.
so early'" commented the visitor.
Come with me. he said in reply.
The two men walked past deer ranges.
where soit-eyed creatures la2ily munched
the remnants OF their dinners; past dens for
wolves and foxes. where the former were
pacing back and forth and snarling at one
another: past ponds for ducks. foi offers
and beavers. to the dens Of the bears.
blasted out of the side of a rocky ledge.
There they stopped and the Waterman
pointed to a big black hulk being swallowed
up by the rapidly falling darkness. 1t was
just light enough to make out that that
animals feet were tucked under a bumped
body and that its dropping head was trying
| hard to emulate the paws
Hes been snoring like a steam engine
since o'clock" said the guide. and he
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to bed and late TO rise When the wolves
howl. a. they do several times a night,
\ he's the only fellow in he whole Zoo who
isn't disturbed. He just keeps on snoring
and snoring, does this Kadiak bear from
Alaska
For ten minutes the Kadiak heaved his
shaggy sides in slunber that would have
made the sluggard that Solomon wrote
| alsxN,, "a
hunan-like thing happened.
little black bear. which was given 10
the Zoo by President Roosevelt, and
had been disturbed in his efforts to rest.
waddled over to his snoring den.mate
and gave him a vicious swat with a paw.
The sleeping bear snored on.
Once again the little black bear struck
the sleeper. The snoring continued. The
little fellow waited a moment then backed
away, and rushing at the Ksdiak. landed
on him with all fours.
The curled-up mass trembled. but kept
on snoring The Presidents bear de-
jectedly walked away and his disguised
attitude said az plainly as words:
'Drat old Kadiak! cant 60 10 sleep
while he snores like that
An hour later all but two OF the twenty
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hairy-eared bear from Asia dreamed as he
| squatted on his launches and propped
himself on his paws.
The four crotches of the dead tree were
occupied by a. many black bears curled
up into balls. Cinnamon. brown and
grizzly were scattered over the rocky
floors. either rolled over on their sides
or sleeping on their bellies, with heads
| tween paws.
The two Polar bears had fattened them
selves like pancakes on a clir over which
the chilly night air swept freely. and judg-
ing by the contented signs they emitted
every little while. they seemed to he relish
ing he frosty breezes that ruffied up their
white coats. But the little black bear
that Mr. Roosevelt captured out West still
paced his cage and glared angrily and
helplessly al the snoring Kadiak.
The other wide-awake was big grizzly
Squatted before his den's gate he per-
sistently endeavorcd TO pick the lock.
Half an hour later he desisted in his vain
efforts and soon was sound asleep in front
of the gate; but one paw still reached up
toward the lock.
Not a sound came from the primates'
house until a door creaked as il was opened
Then every living thing scampered about
and chartered.
The hay in the cages rustled, the sides
Of the cages ratified as the monkeys swung
UP and down and the shelves and perches
| squeaked under the burden of disturbed
animals, Pretty soon all were settled once
more and the monkeys we're seen as they
slept
The little squirrel monkey from South
America was perched on a limb Of a tree
| and his tail, four times the length Of his
body. stuck straight up in the air, The
rhesus monkeys. lying on their bellies and
with their hands under their chins. reminded
| one Of the way human babies frequently
sleep.
A big black ape was bumped up on the
| floor and with his head leaning against
the cages side, snored away like ma ior.
| The drills and mandrills from West Africa
sat up like toy soldiers, and an Arabian
baboon, pcrchcd above them on his
| launches. let his long tail swing down into
the faces Of its smaller cage-mates.
A chimpanzee and an orang -outang. joint
! occupants Of a cage. had buried them
selves in blankets Whenever their su,iirm-
! ings uncovered them, hairy hands would
shoot ou, and grab the coverings and, with
the readiness OF human fingers, pull the
| blankets over the owners heads.
In the emurs cage mother instinct was
interestingly manifested A mother. back
up. had sprawled on the floor. Stretched
across her lay her half dozen children, three
with heads on one side. the other three with
tails on the same SIDE and heads ard tails
alternating. each head being hidden be-
| meath the tail next to il.
The mothers body kept the chill of the
tin away from her precious babies. whose
own tails and the temperature of the house
rs degrees gave sufficient warmth for
their heads and backs.
In the lion house the king of all beasts
were found sleeping like dogs. either on
their sides. with feet held straight on, =,
or on their bellies. with heads resting
between their paws. Two of the three
tigers had rolled over on their backs and
their feet pointed toward the cages roof
while their tongues hung from their partly
opened jaws.
The puma, curlcd up like q cat. had the
back Of his head on the floor and seemed
to enjoy sleeping with twisted neck.
A Sumatran rhinocerous whose dis
tinguishing features. beside his general
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