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MISCELLANEA. 
Francis Ward, Great Haywood. 
Benjamin Blunsom Aris, Northampton. 
Henry John Fitter, Wolverhampton. 
May 17. 
John Meredith, Shrewsbury. 
Edinburgh, April 27. 
Thomas Bell, Darling, Australia. 
Edmund George, Chalwin, Sussex. 
Andrew M‘Farlane, Perthshire- 
MISCELLANEA. 
A Word for the Dumb Creation. 
Keep no dogs that are not wanted for some really useful pur- 
pose; discourage in every way their being used as beasts of 
draught ; take care to let them always have free access to water, 
and never overfeed them. — We may also say a word for birds 
kept in cages. In hot weather do not hang them out in the sun, 
unless you cover the cage with a piece of carpet or green sod, or 
a thick layer of leaves. Let horses, too, have frequent opportu- 
nities of quenching their thirst, especially such as are working in 
towns, and can rarely enjoy green grass. 
A Lion’s Meal. 
On one occasion a lion ran off with our cow ; the two Barolongs 
were grudging the lion his fat meal, and would now and then break 
the silence with a deep sigh, and expressions of regret that such a 
vagabond lion should have a feast on our cow, which they anti- 
cipated would have afforded them many a draught of luscious milk. 
Before the day dawned, having deposited nearly the whole of the 
carcass in his stomach, he collected the head, backbone, parts of 
the legs, the paunch, which he emptied of its contents, and walked 
off, leaving nothing but some fragments of bones, and one of my 
balls, which had hit the carcass instead of himself. When it was 
light we examined the spot, and found from the footmarks that the 
lion was a large one, and had devoured the cow himself. I had 
some difficulty in believing this, but was fully convinced by the 
Baralongs pointing out to me that the footmarks of the other lions 
