CHAPTER XX
ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN, HALLE
This Garden lies in a romantic position in the Reilsberg, and offers a fine view of the surrounding country. The air here is very keen and bracing. The animals are arranged with peculiar taste in idyllic little groups of cages.
Entrance for adults fifty pfennig, for children thirty pfennig. On Sundays and fête-days the price of entrance is specially announced in advertisements and in the papers. Family tickets, inclusive of a servant, 30 marks; these admit to all concerts. There are four ordinary concerts a week in the summer and one grand concert. Special arrangements are made with Corporations and schools. Perambulators only allowed up to 1 p.m. The garden is opened in summer at 7 a.m., and from October to April at 9 a.m. The animal part of the Garden is closed in the evening by a signal from a horn. The flowers are not to be plucked, and the animals are not to be teased nor fed except with the special food which can be bought in the Garden.
After a very long drive in a cab drawn by two horses, for which I paid the extraordinarily small sum of 1 mark (1 shilling), the Zoological Garden, built round a small hill outside the town, was reached. Turning, as usual, to the left, a small Indian elephant is to be found in a house by himself. The lion house is next, and contains lions, tigers, pumas, leopards, hyænas, and a handsome African civet. There are some rather pretty duck and wading-bird ponds.
KANGAROO, HALLE.
Winding walks lead round the hill and deer paddocks, and kangaroos, wild swine, some small monkey houses, and a very good collection of goats are to be seen. On the top of the hill a spiral staircase can be ascended, from which a good view is obtained of the surrounding country. There were torrents of rain and crowds of country people when I saw this Garden, it being Whit Sunday.