The one we saw, measured, as the keeper told us, sixteen feet from the snout to the tail, and seventeen from the tail to the snout: but there must have been some mistake there.

There was a young elephant and three lions, and several other animals which I forget now, so I shall go on to describe the tragical scene which occurred.

The keeper had poked up all the animals, and had commenced feeding them.

The great lion was growling and snarling over the shin-bone of an ox, cracking it like a nut, when, by some mismanagement, one end of the pole upon which the chandelier was suspended fell down, striking the door of the cage in which the lioness was at supper, and bursting it open.

It was all done in a second; the chandelier fell, the cage opened, and the lioness sprang out.