102 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



A RESOURCEFUL 'COON 



be hanged, beyng deeply displeased that so ill 

 favored rascall curre should with such violent vil- 

 lany assault the valiant Lyon King of Beasts!" 



In an ancient history of this same King, quoted 

 in the old Latin dog book, it tells how King Henry 

 also ordered that a falcon should be killed because 

 it presumed to attack an eagle, the King of birds. 



It is a pity that the old pumpkin headed Henry 

 was not present at Laredo, Texas, when a plebian 

 grizzly bear seized the terrible man-eating lion 

 "Parnell" by the shoulder, swung his royal high- 

 ness high in air and slammed him down so hard 

 on the ground that the King of beasts lay there 

 limp and unconscious. 



It is entertaining to think how indignant King 

 Henry would have been had he witnessed this act 

 of "lese majeste" and it is not difficult to guess 



