on a stag which was always at hand in the trench for
such a festival, in case princes or knights interfered with the city's
right of chase outside, or the walls were encompassed and besieged by an
enemy. This pleased us, and we wished that such a lair for tame wild
animals could have been seen in our times. Where is there a boy or girl
who could not join in the wish of this man, who has been called the
first European poet and literary man of the nineteenth century?"

GIRAFFE.

"Fancy," said Sydney Smith to some ladies, when he was told that one of
the giraffes at the Zoological Gardens had caught a cold,--"fancy a
giraffe with two yards of sore throat."

In one of the numbers of _Punch_, published in 1864, the quiz of an
artist has made the giraffes twist their necks into a loose knot by way
of a comforter to keep them from catching a cold, or having a sore
throat. He has very audaciously caused to be printed under his cut, "A
FACT."

FOOTNOTES:

[255] "Life and Correspondence of Charles Lord Metcalfe," by John
William Kaye, vol. i., p. 8.

[256] "The Art of Deer-Stalking," p. 33.

[257] "Deer-Stalking," p. 229.

[258] "Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds," vol. i., p. 124.

[259] "Truth and Poetry from my own Life; the Autobiography of Goethe,"
edited by Parke Godwin, part i., p. 3.

SHEEP AND GOATS.

These are animals, at least the former, which seem to have been created
in a domestic state. They are represented on the most ancient
monuments. A head of a Lybian ram of very large size, in the British
Museum, has great resemblance to nature, and there is one slab at least
among the Assyrian monuments where sheep and goats, as part of the spoil
of a city, are rendered with great skill. In the writings of the Ettrick
Shepherd, many curious anecdotes of Scottish sheep are given.

HOW MANY LEGS HAS A SHEEP?

When the Earl of Bradford was brought before the Lord Chancellor to be
examined upon application for a statute of lunacy against him, the
Chancellor asked him, "How many legs has a sheep?"--"Does your lordship
mean," answered Lord Bradford, "a live sheep or a dead sheep?"--"Is it
not the same thing?" said the Chancellor.--"No, my lord," said Lord
Bradford, "there is much difference: a live sheep may have four legs, a
dead sheep has only two; the two fore-legs are shoulders; there are only
_two legs of mutton_."[260]

GOETHE ON ROOS'S ETCHINGS OF SHEEP.

In the "Conversations of Goethe with Eck