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WHAT A BERLIN CHILD ENJOYED ON THE SPREE AND AT HIS.
GRANDMOTHER'S IN DRESDEN.
In the summer we were all frequently taken to the new Zoological Garden, where we were especially delighted with the drollery of the monkeys.
Even then I felt a certain pity for the deer and does in confinement, and for the wild beasts in their cages, and this so grew upon me that many a visit to a zoological garden has been spoiled by it.

Once in Keilhau I caught a fawn in the wood and was delighted with my beautiful prize.

I meant to bring it up with our rabbits, and had already carried it quite a distance, when suddenly I began to be sorry for it, and thought how its mother would grieve, upon which I took it back to the spot where I had found it and returned to the institution as fast as I could, but said nothing at first about my "stupidity," for I was ashamed of it.
Excursions into the country were the most delightful pleasures of the summer.

The shorter ones took us to the suburbs of the capital, and sometimes to Charlottenburg, where several of our acquaintances lived, and our guardian, Alexander Mendelssohn, had a country house with a beautiful garden, where there was never any lack of the owner's children and grandchildren for playmates.