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taking 1 up in his mouth a fallen infant, and as gently setting- it down again, to the infinite delight 

 of its terrified mother ? Such anecdotes have pleased and flattered us ; but may possibly have 

 g-ained undeserved credit because they pleased, and have pleased because they flattered human 

 nature. 



No. XVII. 



Repeated instances of FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN THE LION AND THE DOG, have occurred at the 

 Menagerie at the Tower, as well as elsewhere in Eng-land : and we have pleasure in adding- a corro- 

 borating- fact of a novel character. Mr. EDWIN LANDSEER made it the subject of a Drawing- from 

 Nature, and we here present the public with an Engraving- after it, executed by his brother, and 

 numbered in our collection, 16. 



A female whelp was accidentally found, quite young-, and even before its eye-lids were unclosed, 

 in an African forest not far from the sea shore. It was broug-ht on board ship by some sailors, 

 where a smallish black bitch, by birth quite an ig-noble cur, having- recently pupped, the experi- 

 ment was successfully made, of ascertaining- whether she would suckle the young- Lioness, who 

 was christened Charlotte. Charlotte soon began to thrive, and to play kitten frolics j and con- 

 tinued to be thus nurtured, till, at no great leng-th of time, she became so much larg-er than her 

 foster-parent, and required so much food, as to induce the necessity of weaning- her. 



But the two quadrupeds continued, ever after, to live together on the most friendly and 

 affectionate terms ; constantly inhabiting- the same cage, and habitually partaking- of the same 

 messes of provision. The Lioness, though now grown large, having never seen any other mother, 

 continued through life to shew marks of daughterly obedience, and the bitch, of maternal regard. 

 Mr. EDWIN LANDSEER, as well as many others, has frequently seen them caressing each other 

 in their cage at the Exeter 'Change Menagerie, in the manner which he has represented : the 

 Drawing, which exhibits portraits both of the LIONESS and BITCH, having been done some 

 years ago. 



And these kitten frolics, or the youthful disposition to indulge in them, continued on the part of 

 the Lioness, till her older and graver nurse became tired of the lion-play, and would sometimes snarl 

 and bark forbiddingly. It was very entertaining, and an interesting chapter in Natural History, to 

 behold this ; for the Bitch ever retained an ascendancy, and much of the authority, of a parent : so 

 that her foster-daughter, though so much larger, and so tremendously powerful, would retire 



