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It must be neted that the show of lons here to be scen, large as it is, is by no mecans fully representative of the various specices. There are none of the more familiar of our tonghish lions 5 the Red Lion, the White Tion, the Blue Tion-—to say nothing of the accom- panying stomach-warmer—familiar as they are In our town streets, are not to bz found here : nor 15 that noble creature, the lion of heraldry. T'his s a pity : because here he

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would be fed, and would get rid of that painfully greyhound-like waist which is among the

more noticeable of his characteristics

. and I should have an opportunity of mspecting that

extraordinary growth, his tail, with its many vigorous

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sprouts and branches ; and many other of his members, an acquaintance of which in the flesh T have long much

desired.

Nor is the King of Beasts repre- sented as he was of old in the British Muscum - by the remarkable species Leo shagbagea stufficus ; whercfore also 1 gricve. For in the muscum variety were many strange bodily developments and physical functions unknown among others. Leo shag- bagya stuffices might be approached with perfeet safety, and any naturalist sulliciently intrepid might, in the labled manner of Richard Ceoeur de Lion, boldly thrust his hand deep

between the beast’s open jaws, and from

his mnermost vitals extract 111)]1()1stc1'}'.

It was never very good upholstery, being chicfly

fluc and dusty straw, but it was

quite cqual to imparting a distinctive want of shape which at once stamped Zeo shage-

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extinet species,

Tack, wears a straw hat, and smokes a pipe.

- - Familiarity with the N hon has bred so much

contempt for him that really we shall - be going very little further m classing him a domestic animal. They keep him in a shed, whack him with a stick, and make him jumy through a hoop—and a poor old shecp he seems, he

LILO TGNOJMINTIOSUS,

not here and Also we may British

T.1on- -the cartoon hon—who waves a Union

Cagga an unique specics. The tail, also, has been known to yield walk- Ing sticks. IExternal patches of differing tints, attached by large stitches of - pack-thread, did not mdicate a separate variety of this species, being peeuliar to individuals only,

I fear Leo shagbagea s now an but the Blue Lion, the White T.ion,

and the Red Tion we may see every day -although

become mtimately acquainted with. see the