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TIGICR is not a hon. This will be

lconine chapter. For neither 1s a leopard a lion, nor a chectah, nor a puma, yet all these live o the lion-house. Wherefore must the title be held to refor to the locahty, and not to a scction of 1ts in- habitants., This 1s probably called the llon-house 1 a formal survival of the spirit which gives the lion a kingship among the Tower antmals. But the Thon really 15 a fraud- as much so, at any rate, as the camel. It s very sad to find so many downright frauds among the mnocent lower animals,

but there sn't o department in these Gardens where you shall not discover a humbug of somce sort. In this house, perhaps, there 10 less humbug about the ticers than about any of the others, although even the tiger has his little hypoerisies ; still he 1s justly and honestly indignant that the place, by title, should be given to the hons, and 1s supercilious i his bearing to human creatures 1 conscquence.

Vol iv.—67.