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A Wild-animal Farm
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Zebras in an every-day American barnyard.

the farmers. The caravan starts on its journey promptly at sunrise, and it is usually late in the day before the farm is reached and the last unruly runaway rounded up and safely stabled.

A dromedary, or “two-masted” ship of the desert, in his American home.

A generation of circus audiences has faced these same animals in their tented city. And because we are used to seeing them surrounded by crowds and with the accompaniment of brass
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