The financier who bought all of nature

摘要

APORTLY man in a bowler hat rides a carriage down the grimy streets of London. Pulling the carriage are six zebras, their black-and-white markings clearly visible through the London pea-soup fog. It's 1898, and he is on his way to Buckingham Palace to prove to the perpetually not-amused Queen Victoria that zebras can be tamed just like horses. Nevertheless, he watches with ill-suppressed panic as Princess Alexandra reaches out to pet the lead zebra, or so the story goes.