as a specimen
of the sort of amusement we meet with in quarters.
[3] Communicated by M.L.B., Great Marlow, Bucks.
[4] Vide _Mirror_, vol. xviii. p. 343.--_Note_.
_Natural Zoological Garden_.
SECUNDERABAD, 1828.
Your description of the London Zoological Garden, reminds me that
there is, what I suppose I must term, a most beautiful _Zoological
Hill_, just one mile and a half from the spot whence I now write; on
this I often take my recreation, much to the alarm of its inhabitants;
viz. sundry cheetars, bore-butchers, (or leopards) hyenas, wolves,
jackalls, foxes, hares, partridges, etc.; but not being a very capital
shot, I have seldom made much devastation amongst them. Under the hill
are swamps and paddy-fields, which abound in snipe and other game.
Now, is not this a Zoological Garden on the grandest scale?
H.C.B.
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OLD POETS.
* * * * *
BALLAD OF AGINCOURT.
(_From "England's Heroical Epistles[5]._")
Faire stood the wind for France,
When we, our sayles advance,
Nor now to proue our chance
Longer will tarry;
But putting to the mayne,
At Kaux, the mouth of Sene,
With all his martiall trayne,
Landed King Harry.
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