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Updated: June 8, 2025
I had intended to get a dead monkey from Jamrach's and experiment in the process. But now it seemed that the monkey would be unnecessary if only the preparation could be produced without injuring the skull; and I had no doubt that, with due care and skill, it could. "At daybreak I went down to the dining-room.
'No doubt our arrangement with Jamrach's would enable us to supply them, sir, Simon put in rapidly. 'But handcuffs seem to be a monopoly of the State. 'Evidently, Shawn, you are not familiar with the famous remark of Louis the Fourteenth. 'I am not, sir. 'He said, "L'état, c'est moi." Show me the catalogue.
Suppose we take a stroll together. 'But you never walk out in the daytime. 'Not often; indeed, I may say never, unless it is to go to the Zoo, or to Jamrach's, which I do about once in three months. 'Jamrach's! I said. 'Why, he's the importer of animals, isn't he?
The Second Class Passenger was in Jamrach's employ at the time and knew Barnum well. He said the thing began in this way.
Our olfactories also were charmed. The mousy scent of the animals mixed with the scent of sawdust, which to adults was so objectionable, was characterised by us as delicious. All these Wombwell delights came back to me as we entered Jamrach's, and for a time the picture of Winifred prevented my seeing the famous shop.
"I perceive that you have a turn for satire," he said, laughing. "I will not deny that I have an extraordinarily strong passion for watching the movements of animals. I have, to the sorrow of my neighbours, filled my garden in London with all kinds of purchases from Jamrach's.
I told her of my vigil overnight and my undertaking to look after the Judds. She listened with great interest. When I had finished my tale, she said almost passionately: "Oh, I wish I could do something like that!" "You?" "Why not? I came from those people. My grandfather swept the cages in Jamrach's down by the docks. He died of drink. He used to live in one horrible, squalid room near by.
One morning Barnum and Jamrach were in Jamrach's little private snuggery back of the wilderness of caged monkeys and snakes and other commonplaces of Jamrach's stock in trade, refreshing themselves after an arduous stroke of business, Jamrach with something orthodox, Barnum with something heterodox for Barnum was a teetotaler. The stroke of business was in the elephant line.
Soldiers, guards, engineers, travellers, and crowds of natives surrounded me, and at every station the guard's van, with my novel menagerie, was the centre of attraction. I sold the cubs to Jamrach's agent in Calcutta for a very satisfactory price.
"Ay, and private cabins paid for to boot, in case of the storm's inclemency." The Prince nodded and seemed pleased; then he asked anxiously, "The Bird? You have been to Jamrach's?" "Pardon me, Sire," says the man who was waiting to be shaved, "I can slip from your jesses no mercenary eagle.
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