He had a charming triumph in the discovery of two more animals beginning with Z, to wit, the zibet and the zoril, which was the sweeter for the fact that they were both new beasts to the children.

Zibet, zib′et, n. an Asiatic or Indian civet.

Z was a zealous old Zibet, Toboggans he tried to prohibit.

Then it must have been a Zibet, a specie not unlike the American civet.