Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A writer in a Cincinnati paper, describing a midnight visit to the animals of Raymond and Waring’s menagerie, in the winter quarters in that city with Driesbach, the famous keeper, says:
“It was a sight worth walking ten miles. We found, contrary to assertions of natural historians, an elephant lying down. It has always been asserted that these animals sleep standing. The different caged animals were reposing in the most graceful and classical attitude. The lion and the tiger, the leopard and the panther, were lying with their paw affectionately twined about each other, without regard to species and nativity. In cages containing more than one animal, it is the never failing custom for one to keep watch while the other sleep. The sentry is relieved with much regularity as in a well regulated camp of soldiers, although not, probably, with as much precision in regard to time. The sentinel paces back and forth, and is very careful not to touch or do anything to arouse his comrade. Occasionally he lies down, but always with his head toward the front of the cage, and never sleeps until he is relieved. This singular custom, Herr Driesbach informs us, since his connection with the menagerie, he has never known to be violated.