Thoreau writes in his journal:
Visited a menagerie this afternoon (Journal, 2:271).
Thoreau writes in his journal on 1 August:
I went to a menagerie the other day, advertised by a flaming show-bill as big as a barn-door. The proprietors had taken wonderful pains to collect rare and interesting animals from all parts of the world, and then placed by them a few stupid and ignorant fellows, coachmen or stablers, who knew little or nothing about the animals and were unwilling even to communicate the little they knew.
