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Show FEW GIRAFFES ARE TAKEN.' Much in Demand, tho Long-Necked Animal Is Seldom Captured. Captive. "There Is one order that I never llko to fill," said tho animal collector. "That order Is one for a live giraffe. "Lions and gorillas and tigers and pythons py-thons aro easy to catch as compared with a. giraffe. Tho long-legged, long-necked beast can nee, smell nnd hear a hunter miles away. And when a herd smells danger dan-ger .oft! It will dash. "You can't catch a giraffe In a pitfall. Jt would bo certain to break Its neck or legs If It tumbled Into a pit. There Is not a trap that would do. A trap powerful enough to hold tho strong beast would crunch Its delicate legs llko plpestems. "So thero Is only one way to catch giraffes gi-raffes alive, and a mighty hard wav It Is. "They must bo surrounded bv drivers and chased until they bring tip wunry and helpless In an lnclosuro mado of netting net-ting and bamboo. That means a drive of many miles, lasting manv days, for It would neveuilo to drive I hem Into tho lnclosuro ln-closuro In the first rush of their terror. Thoy would dash headlong into It and kill themselves. "This hunting Is a torrlblo pleco of business busi-ness In Itself. But after tho giraiios aro safely penned In the hardest work has only begun. That Is to transport ti,0 beauts through COO or more miles of primeval prime-val wilderness to the nearest seaport. "Man havo tried all Kinds of wuyo to do this, and even to driving tho great brutes. But that doesn't pay. The risk of accident Is too great. "I prefer tho old-fashioned plan, to pon tho animals In a bamboo cage open at tho top, so that their shoulders and necks can stlok out. Then the cage Is lashed to great bamboo poles from twenty to thirty feet long. As Jjiany natives as possible lift tho four enis to their shoulders and off goes Af Csratfo on a free rldo to tho oceaa "'1 jflrafCc's legs break very easily. This br tho evr-prosnnt danger all tho way to tho tteat. But when port is reached It becomes still moro gravo,.for it Is in bringing the anlmnl aboard a ship and during tho storms of a voyage that tho colluctor may oxpsct overy moment tliut his precious property will slip. ".And If It slips and goes down on Its narrow quarters It's gnod-byo giraffe, for its IcgH havtm't enough room In an ordinary ordi-nary stall on a ship and are almost suro to double under It If it fa lbs. "New Tork Sun. |