Tiebor's seals #2

The article was not complete but from what I read there was no mention of the previous year's Hartford fire. The seal den was always spotted in the back yard rather then in the menagerie for more convenient access to the circus ring so Roland had to be right in the middle of it. I have seen film clips of seals being loaded from their den into a rather large two wheel cart in which they were then transported right up to the back of the ring. This protected their flippers from stubble and debris. I remember Walter Jennier had a long strip of canvas he used for the same purpose. You would think that any animal that bounces around on ice glaciers would have indestructable feet but appearantly not.