20 CARNIVOROUS QUADRUPEDS. 



obediently to the farther corner of the cage, waiting- a favourable change of temper, on the part of 

 her senior, before she renewed her playful familiarities. 



On a principle of prudence, however, and because it was judged that if these inmates of the 

 same refectory, ever quarrelled, it would be at a meal-time, they were of late separately fed : that 

 is to say, not at separate times, or tables, but, at opposite corners of the apartment : but the Bitch 

 has often been known to help herself out of Charlotte's portion, without fear or ceremony, and her 

 majesty to shew no resentment, nor any kind of royal displeasure or hurt feeling-, at the indecorum. 



We esteem this Engraving to afford a fair example of the positive, or negative, power of the 

 sovereign of the forest, of physiognomical^ expressing the gentler emotions. But it occurs to us 

 here and we mention it in reference to an .argument maintained in an earlier part of this disserta- 

 tion that perhaps licking with the tongue may belong- to the dumb language of quadrupedal 

 expression of affection. But the Dog', and the Cat, kind, express themselves in this way ; and 

 amongst each other, it cannot be misunderstood the affectionate idea being impressed at the 

 period of their very earliest susceptibilities, and associated perhaps as indissolubly as the human 

 endearments of smiles and kissing with their youngest, purest, and most permanent recollec- 

 tions. 



No. XVIII. 



IN this plate the ideas of expeditious motion, and quest, are admirably depicted : kept up 

 from stem to stern ; he is evidently bent on destruction. This is he that appeared to the terrified 

 imagination of COLLINS'S Oriental camel-driver, who, in his beautiful Eclogue, exclaims 



" What, if the LION in his rage I meet !" 



And the determined purpose which pervades the whole frame and the mind of the sallying- hero, is 

 seen in his resolute look, as" well as in every motion of his muscular limbs aye, to the very tuft at 

 the extremity of his tail. All is expressive of his plenitude of animation, and prey is obviously his 

 purpose. None can mistake him. 



This will probably be thought another of the instances in which the present artists have been 

 eminently successful in the execution of their subject. (For the design they were indebted to the 

 etching-needle of RIDINGER.) The shag of the mane is characteristically varied from the short 



