Excerpt from A Man in the Zoo It was a warm day at the end of February, and Sunday morning. In the air there was a smell of spring, mixed with the odours of different animals - yaks, wolves, and musk-oxen, but the two visitors did not notice it. They were lovers, and were having a quarrel. They came soon to the Wolves and Foxes, and stood still opposite a cage containing an animal very like a dog. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.