I have to thank Mr. Arthur Waley for permission to quote from his
translation of a poem by Wang Yen-shou, which appears in “The Temple and
other Poems,” published by Messrs. Allen & Unwin.
I also wish to say that the Royal Zoological Society has always been the
object of my respect and admiration, and that in this story, neither
explicitly nor implicitly, is anything intended that could be regarded
as derogatory to the Society in any sense.
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