'AIL this fuss about a pangolint"™ 'The speaker was unable to con-coal a sneer as he literally spat out the words while crouching over a small rock in Mac's garden. Mac owns Mr. Oxyrhynehus—he has had him. for' years—and whenever Mac moves, "Oxy" goes with him. His present home is a garden in the West~ fern district, but Mac's full name must for the present remain dark. He doesn't want his pet kidnapped.
"A sealy ante-ater!" Oxy continued, stressing the word "sealy." Oxy hot scaly, nor does he cat ants, He has for many years subsisted on a liquid' diet: beer in summer and whiskey in cooler weather. And cigarettes (no cork tips), about Atty a day, That's the way Mac has brought him up.
Oxy ig between four and five fect Jong and Tooks ike a prehistoric monster viewed through the wrong end of an opera glass. His family name is oxyrhynchus sinensis and he was born in the North long before autonomy was ever thought of. How came to Shanghai remains a my-story, but he arrived all vight, with benedt of Traveller's Ald, and established himself, It is to be doubted If there is another oxyrhynchus in Shanghai.
'And that {s precisely why he now breaks Into print. He does not actually' talk, of course (or drink real deer or actually smoke), but his mas~ er speaks for him. And it was his master who, having read so, much about pangolins and Taihu alligators, voleed a desire to receive some truly Selentifc information about his Strange species, and even asked whe~ ther an oxyrhynchus could be cross~ ed with @ pangolin.
An "N.-C, Herald" representative was permitted to visit the garden where the animal is kept and way able to take several photographs of the pet Whose tameness astonished him. Although Oxy 1s over four feet long! and 4s equipped with long claws and Vielous-looking teeth, "he appeared very gentle and playful and was even Inditced by his master to stand on his. fore fect sipping sugar water (simculating bear) before the camera. tin other pose he held an unlighted cigarette in his mouth for several minutes,
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