This time he wandered round to the back parts of the house where the newer and lower buildings joined it. Here he was surprised by a stable-like smell and a medley of growls, grunts and whimpers—all the signs, in fact, of a considerable zoo. At first he did not understand, but presently he remembered that an immense program of vivisection, freed at last from Red Tape and from niggling economy, was one of the plans of the NICE.
