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m her own place. Prince and Naney are a fine old couple of lions - married fiftcen years, and a peaceable, comfort- able old pair stll. Ask Sutton, the head lion-keeper, about Prince and Nancy. Sutton, by-the-bye, will soon have been cmployed 1 these gardens for forty vears. 10 1 were a statistictan 1 pro- Lably could prove, by rule of arithmetic, that Sutton has been killed many times over, n the course of so many vears among lions and tigers. Not being a statistician, I am compelled to admit that he hasn’t. Sutton cnjovs the dis- tinction of being the only thing in the lion-house never sketched by the artists and the sketchers who are not artists.
It 1s noticeable that a lion-—any lon, cvery lon—-likes to take his case with his nosc stuffed out between the bars-— by way, probably, of sniffing the air of frecdom, and feeling as much at hiberty as possible in the circumstances, regard- less of contact with the iron of the cage, === I am not sure that this muzzle-exposure 15 always good for Ifelis l.eo: T have a suspicion that it may be responsible for some of the
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toothaches wherewith he now and
again 1s afflicted, and ascribes, probably, to Sutton’s partiality for open windows. A lion with a toothache 1s a pitiable thing: sull) a thing to which T should prefer to administer comfort from the opposite side of the bars: and one the
\ . extraction of whose tooth
I could leave, without envy, n
. 7 _\:\};E:\\U'((/fi other hands, Any person of ordimary humanity would prefer losimg a tooth of his own to miheting the pamn of cxtraction e RN upon—-sav. Duke here —with his own hand. There 1s more v gn tenderness for the feelings of dumb animals than one might imagine i the world, in such circumstances as these. Although i il why ])ul'(c sl)()tll(l a dumb anmmal 1s not casy X il_""g to explun after hearmng his shocking language if dinner = i arvives alitde Tater than (,{,. ) N ',w/fimils\..’“l hm.]. . = Notwithstandmg all his ke " crandeur and all his pos. g | ing, the hon doesn't sufhi- ciently wash his face nor. mdeed, anyv other part of
- himself, A tiger’s ablu
TOOTHACH. Ii(‘l(il]gS are
portionately few and small
m area compared with those of the humble tom-cat of
our native tiles. But compared with those of the lion they are profuse, excessive, superfluous. The hon has not yet learned the lesson of personal cleanliness. Some day, 1f I think of it when T sce him, T shall suggest to Sutton the expedient of turning the garden hose on these llons. T don’t believe they would enjov it at first, but their ceducation must begin somewhere. And Sutton might find this process more convement than an actual bodily assault with soap and towcls, although, considered as a spectacle, this plan would have its merits ; and
YOU DIRTY LION,