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about his cars to represent amane, and then stadks forth to be admired. Heis encouraged by ignorant visitors who, from his size and colour. assume hir o be a young lion, and call him onc. T have even heard these sages dis])utin(f about his age, and walking off saturated with the animosity born of contentious ignorance, without once looking at the labcel which published the creature’s pumaship

to all thc world. This sort of thing turns the puma’s head, and makes a fool of him.

The tiger’s superiority to the lion consists chieflv in his candour. Hc 1s a wicked, vicious rascal, a thief and murderer, and he owns it. He doesn’t pose. He would always rather run away than be bothered with fighting, unless he happen to be hungry, and so would the lion. But the hon will attitudinize i he thinks you have obscrved him, and try to make his running away look like magnanimity. The tiger smply bundles off, without any false pride. These particulars 1T give on hearsay evidence. They did not seem sufficiently important to warrant the expense of a personal test. Anybody anxious to know more of the lion or

. . ‘\(\\\"y tiger has open to hime several means " of acquiring mformation at first hand THE TIGER Is AMUSED, among others, palnistry, Doth the

lon and the tiger have paws of great mobihty of - expression. T have no doubt that if o skilful chiromancist were care fully and ]nmstll\m“l\ Lo exanine the paws of cither Duke the lion or Tommy the hig tiger here, he would before very Tong he greatly struck by them., Indeed, persons with very little ])m(u(al knowledge of pllmlsm have Deen after a0 very short acquaintance with a tiger's paw, to carry away an extremely vivid i impression thereof, it should be more generally understood that a tiger does not cat buns. There is a ])()pul,n superstition that he does a superstition extending also to Tunch 'biscuits, bull’s cyes, and acidulated drops. Worthy old ladics arce the chiel votarics of the bun superstition, little boys and girls attending school treats taking the bull's-cye and acidulated drop branch. A tiger doesn’t resent the offer of a bun as an insult- he is mud) amused. Offer a bun to Duke, and he will express L desire to bite off half of vou at once. Tommy and Minnic are a long-wedded tiger couple - at the opposite cnd to Duke. And in their cage, i feeding-time be near, yvou shall sce a quaint thing. Every animal in this place carries an internal clock of extreme accuracy, which | sets him roaring furiously a little before four o'clock - “ e cvery one but Tommy. Tommy makes a clock of himsell

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