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Title: Wild-animal celebrities
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Velvin, Ellen
Subjects: Animal behavior
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard & company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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t years to accomplish this,throws him a large ball, he catches it, bal-ances it on his nose, and still continues hisride, poising himself and the ball in the mostwonderful manner. Only once have I seenhim drop the ball, and that was when thehorse stumbled a little, which naturally causedhim to lose his balance. Another clever trick is to blow a horn onhorseback. I have seen several sea lionbands, but never before seen one of theseanimals actually blow a horn, for in everyother case there is generally a bulb attachedto the instrument which, being pressed by theseal or sea lion, makes a noise. But this sealion actually takes the end of the horn in hismouth and blows it, and the most amusingpart of it is to see the desperate efforts andthe peculiar faces he makes when doing it,screwing up his mouth and puffing his hardest. I found many people had the impressionthat this sea lion was fastened to the saddlein some way after he mounted the horse, butthis is not so. The saddle is an ordinary
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V, c 9 S M C a* 3* B w <H H 2 2 S £g SEALS AND SEA LIONS 245 padded saddle such as is commonly used incircuses and he maintains his position simplyby balancing himself, nothing else. At the end of the performance Wilmer patshis horses neck with his flipper, in muchthe same way in which the other horsebackriders do with their hands, and of course afterhis performance is over—with an odd bit ortwo in between—he gets his reward of fish.For with seals and sea lions, this is the mainthing—no work, no fish, just as when teachinga dog a trick, it is no trick, no sugar. DOGS chapter; XIV. DOGSBridge, Eskimo ; Pluto, Great Dane. SO many dogs have become celebrated invarious ways during their lifetime thatit would take more than one whole book towrite about them. From the famous mastiff ofSt. Bernards who, in the beginning of thelast century saved the lives of more thanforty human beings, to the little plaything ofa dog which Frederick, Prince of Wales, hadgiven him by Alexander Pope,

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