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who 15 treated thus m caravans., The hon, as T have said, 1s a fraud s a posing, theatrical, Turveydrop
and Bobadil of a fraud. l.ook at him n this, his house. He turns up his nose at the visitors and affects @ magnanimous superiority. If he were 4 human thing he would wear prace-ies and avelvet jacket, and look pityingly great at picture shows, though m his mner heart
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a mere beer-drinking vulgarian and a smoker of pipes. So alwavs with the lion: he will posc fine and large if he meet you out for a walk in a jungle, and do his utmost to terrify vou; if driven to it he may take the Tiberty of helpmg himsclf to a mouthful of vou. A BEER-DRINKING VULGARIAN, But all this 1s only it he has first failed to sneak away unobserved. In South Africa o team-driver, finding a family of lions in his path, will calmly take his long stock-whip and whip them away; and they go meckly, glad to cscape the lash. When no stock-whip 1s handy, a traveller from Ingland is used— preferably with a title.
Here in one respect only are the lions treated with absolute cruelty, but in that respect
the cruclty 1s of an aggravated sort. Come nto
o the lion-house at what time, on what day (except
‘b(“ o Saturday and Sunday) you please, and you shall
A find various artists, and more various
I N people who are not, nor ever will be R artists, skcetehing and daubing and out-
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ragig the features and the feelings of . lons and tigers. Perhaps, however, RER it 1s a moral dispensation, teaching
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I “ :%' . . W G the ammals to look forward to
- SIWYAY sunday with longing, as a day of
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blessed relief and rest ; guarding their conduct 1in the matter cf Sunday observance, while the bars and the keeper take carc of 1t m other matters. Fattle defence 1s available against all these daubers ; but 1t 1s possible for a lion or a tiger to lie lifelessly and flat upon its side, offering only Lol CARTAGL. : the uninspiriting outline of a