| Show taming lebi i zebras can never be unless the process is begun while they are baill very young H A bryden gives an instance of a tragic fate which befell one of them captured when be was 7 or 8 years old he had joined a troop of horses belong ing to one of the authors friends and finally allowed himself to be driven with them into a kraal or iu closure it waa then determined to keep him and if possible to domesticate him for this purpose ha was lassoed and tied to a tree but so ferocious was he in the presence of man that the greatest precautions had to be observed in approaching pro aching him all possible means were taken to induce him to feed when captured he was in condition and bis coat chone in the sun herbage was brought from the mountain tops where be had been used to graze and every conceivable food placed before him ant in vain he steadily refused to eat water he drank greedily and would dispose of three bucketfuls at a time at length after three weeks of vain endeavor to tame the noble creature during which time he subsisted entirely on water he died youths companion |
