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eat together, he sent for twenty pounds of beef, which was 

 accordingly cut in pieces and given into the cage ; when 

 immediately the little brute, whose appetite happened to 

 be eager at the time, was desirous of making a monopoly 

 of the whole, and, putting his paws upon the meat, and 

 grumbling and barking, he audaciously flew into the face 

 of the lion. But the generous creature, instead of being 

 offended with his impotent companion, started back, and 

 seemed terrified at the fury of his attack ; neither attempt- 

 ed to eat a bit till his favorite had tacitly given permission. 

 7. When they were both gorged, the lion stretched 

 and turned himself and lay down in an evident posture 

 for repose, but this his sportive companion would not ad- 

 mit. He frisked and gamboled about him, barked at him, 

 would now scrape and tear at his head with his claws, and 

 again seize him by the ear and bite and pull away, while 

 the noble beast appeared affected by no other sentiment 

 save that of pleasure and complacence. -. 



Henry ifrooke. 



HOME LIFE OF SCOTTISH DEER. 



1. Near Slui, on the Findhorn, there is a range of 

 precipices and wooded steeps crowned with pine, and 

 washed by the clear and rippling stream of the river, 

 through which there is an excellent ford very well known 

 to the roe for escaping to the woods when pressed by the 

 hounds. In this reach is a remarkable crag, a sheer, naked, 

 even wall of limestone, lying in horizontal strata, eighty 

 or ninety feet high. At the eastern extremity of this rock 

 there is a great division, partly separated from the main 

 curtain by a deep, woody slope, which dips into the preci- 

 pice with little more inclination from the perpendicular 

 than to admit of a careful footing. In the face of the di- 



