CO NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Instances of attachment. 



in his manners. Being about to return to Eng- 

 land,, Mr. Archer reluctantly gave the animal to 

 a merchant of Marseilles, who presented him to 

 the French king. By that monarch he was sent 

 as a present to the English sovereign, and was 

 kept for seven years afterwards in the tower. A 

 man; who had been in the service of Mr. Archer, 

 accidentally went with some friends to see the 

 animals there. The lion instantly recognized 

 him, and by his whining and gestures, exhibited 

 the most unequivocal signs of joy at meeting 

 with his former acquaintance. The man, equally 

 rejoiced, desired the keeper to open his cage, 

 and went into it. The lion fawned upon him like 

 a dog, and licked his hands, feet, and face, leaping 

 and tumbling about, to the astonishment of all 

 the spectators. When he left the place, the ani- 

 mal roared aloud in an extacy of grief, and for 

 four days refused to take any kind of nourish- 

 ment." 



A similar circumstance is related by Mr. Hope, 

 in his Thoughts in Prose and Verse. 



t( One day," says that writer, " I had the ho- 

 nour of dining with her grace the Duchess of 

 Hamilton. After dinner, the company attended 

 her grace to see a lion that she had in the court, 

 fed. While we were admiring his fierceness, 

 and teazing him with sticks to make him aban- 

 don his prey and fly at us, the porter came, and 

 informed the duchess, that a serjeant, with some 

 recruits at the gate, begged permission to see the 



