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He was an animal of fine appearance, and very well trained, and well known throughout the country.
He was at the building of the old Zoological Institute in the Bowery during the winters of '36 and '37, whence he went to the West Indies.
While there, he went into a pond for a bath one day, and, refusing to leave it, several balls were fired into him by way of persuasion, from the effects of which he died.
Mad'lle D'jek, the heroine of Charles Reade's "lack-of-all-Trades," was here about 1834, and played at both the Park and Bowery Theatres, after which she went to Philadelphia.
She was in charge of an East Indian native keeper.
While in this city, she got loose one night and went through the Bowery and Chatham streets, pumping water from the pumps which then stood in those localities, and wrenching on the handles after she had satisfied her thirst.
She also made sad havoc with the awning posts, and raised the mischief generally.
In Philadelphia, her performances created quite
a deep and wide trench, whose bottom showed objects that had lain there when the waters flowed above, and which once would have been as precious an now they were unregarded.
Here was a bridge from side to side; and a little way above, stood part of the walls of a noble building, partly black with smoke, partly white with the polish and beauty of stones newly built together.
"These are the Houses of Parliament," said Paulette, the work of many years, which were to replace those burned in 1834.
See how beautiful they were, what excellent design, what exquisite finish; how strong and stable, to last for a thousand ages, and to crown the river which then flowed in this dusty channel.
When matters were come almost to the worst, and there were convulsions all over the country in consequence of the famine, the queen, for the first time, came to these houses to open the last Parliament that ever assembled.
There were no beasts of burthen then left alive in the country; it had been fou
