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It o pity that somce of the leopards wre not as cood-humoured as Dodger and the chectahs. One particular pair live in a perpetual mutual threat to bite off cach other's heads, Anything 1s a sufficient provocation. Whatever the one s doing arouses the jealousy of the other and there you are !

We human animals have long held a conceited belief that other creatures shrink and cower under the gaze of our cyes :oand as example we point to the big cats. A tiger, we say, will not look a man in the face. He won'’t, but fear is not his motive. It is superciliousness-—a lofty alfectation of indifference, and nothing clse. Lvery cat 15 the same in this respect-—lion, tiger, lecpard, panther,

Tom or tabby. It is only another ex

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pression of the cat’s native vanity. Loving

to he stared at and admired, he makes a egrcat show of the most contemptuous mdiffercnee to every- body. Before vou reach the cage you may now and again detect, lrom the corner of your cye, the cat observing vou with

some terest 5 after vou have passed you may sce the same thing —if you are very o sly. But while you are before him, and looking at him, the tiger cuts you dead. You don’t exist you are mere Im-

P o ) palpable space. Some B ' people don’t like this W treatment and wave

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