LIONS AND TIGERS 



EXTRACTING BONE FROM TEETH. 



Not very long since one of the keepers came to me 

 and informed me that one of the lions seemed very un- 

 comfortable and was trying to get something out of his 

 mouth with his paw. I went over to the Lion-house and, 

 tipon examination, found that a bone had become fixed in 

 the mouth of one of the animals. He was becoming very 

 disagreeable, and the difficulty was, how it was to be 

 extracted. I had him removed into one of the shift- 

 ing dens, where he would not be far from the bars. I then 

 discovered that the substance in his mouth was a large 

 porous bone as large as a niiin's fist, and which formed 

 the hip-joint of a horse. The lion had had his usual 

 dinner of horseflesh, and had somehow or other forced one 

 of his upper canine teeth into the soft spongy piece of 

 bone ; on closing his mouth he had pressed the corre- 

 sponding canine tooth through as well, so that the teeth 

 met in the centre and had become a fixture, thus prevent- 

 ing him from taking either food or water. With a great 

 deal of difficulty I managed, with a pair of blacksmith's 

 tongs, to get this bone out of the beast's mouth, and for- 

 tunately no injury happened to the animal or to any one 

 concerned in the operation. 



KILLED BY A LION. 



An announcement with the above heading is calculated 

 to attract attention, for so much has been written and 

 said in praise of this powerful brute, of his noble disposi- 

 tion, and his respect and forbearance towards mankind, 

 that many persons are deluded into a belief that a lion is 

 less to be feared than any of the other large carnivora, and 



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