A JUNGLE DINNER.
New York, February 3. The latest "freak meal" in New Vork is the ''jungle dinner." The keepers of the Bronx l'ark Zoological hardens have just held one iu the float House Restaurant. All the delights of the jungle surrounded them, l'alms and corn-baku waved to and fro above their heads, and the noise of forest resounded on ever side—or at least as good imitations as phonographic and other somulpruducers could give. The food savoured as much of the jungle as the banqueting room. A python, fresh from the chef's hands, coiled arouud the lish. The joint came to the table covered by a papier-mache head of a lion. Even the dishes were shaped like animals. All the beasts that Iwokcd a passage in Noah's ark, and a great many more besides, were brought up and broken—revealing icecream inside. The food was strange, but stranger by far were the stories told by a " natural history class" of keepers, dressed as school boys and girls. Their answers to the question set by their ''schoolmasters-'' contained some of the most unnatural history ever told in America.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 88, 2 April 1908, Page 4
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186A JUNGLE DINNER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 88, 2 April 1908, Page 4
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