SLIPPERY SOLOMON. 



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wise men, and Carapo by the South Americans. He didn't like the 

 tank he Uved in nearly as well as the river Amazon, though it 

 was a good, big tank, and he had it all to himself. He coald lie at 

 full length in it, and he could wriggle, — oh ! how he could wrig- 

 gle ! Positively, even a boy taking his medicine is nothing corn- 

 pared with Slippery Solomon when he wanted his dinner. By the 

 way, I must tell you how he took it. 



His servant brought it to him every day at one o'clock precisely. 

 If he was late Solomon invariably bit him, which served him quite 

 right. The dinner consisted of a number of live fish, which wei-e 

 thrown, one by one, into the tank. Xow, how did Solomon behave 



