io6 DAYS AND NIGHTS BY THE DESERT. 



mumbling to himself, looking so doleful and unhappy 

 that the uninitiated would believe that he was the 

 most aggrieved sufferer from the disturbance and 

 not the promoter. 



For two days the young lions would not take 

 food, and even showed themselves disposed to offer 

 violence to the hand that tendered it ; but starvation 

 is a great leveller, and knowing this, I resolved to let 

 them have nothing to eat till they took it rationally 

 and gratefully. The third morning they did so, 

 and rapidly disposed of a quart of milk thickened 

 with meal, to the mutual satisfaction of all parties. 



A wolf is said to have suckled Romulus and 

 Remus ; the accuracy of this is doubted by many, 

 but of this my readers may be assured, Leo and 

 Juno were suckled by a goat. 



Among my camp followers was an aged "Nanny- 

 goat," whose kid was about two weeks old. The 

 child was brutally sentenced to fill the flesh-pots, 

 and its parent, till further orders, told off to perform 

 the unnatural duty of foster-mother. 



In my mind it was easy enough to adopt such a 

 scheme, but I soon found that the principals had a 

 strong objection to following it. 



The goat became frantic when the cubs were 

 put near her, and they in turn appeared equally 

 frightened when they saw her. So " Nanny" had 

 her legs tied, and her neck and hind-quarters staked 

 to the ground. Still the young lions would not suck ? 





