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… fee illegally required by the Queen’s Guard who refused to show the zebra without being paid. Numerous indignant letters appeared in London newspapers especially because the Queen was not able to stop such sordid doings. This social … say with such exotic animals as the king’s elephants and the queen’s zebra. Likewise, Walpole and Mason exchanged witty letters on the zebra whose dead body was put on display at the Blue Boar Inn in York. In a letter dated 2 June 1773, Mason empathises with the zebra’s pitiable fate of being exhibited as a living animal for 10 …
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