THE LION. 
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on the offender 
and attack him with 
®eth and claws in the same manner as the 
j, _ ther. It is seldom seen on the ground, 
chiefly in trees, where it makes a nest, 
ijj ^ its young, subsisting chiefly on birds. 
Pursuit of which it leaps from tree to tree 
u astonishing agility. 
THE LION. 
th ^ great size, and prodigious strength, 
lion, undoubtedly the most dignified and 
Justic of quadrupeds, has been for ages po- 
styled “ The King of Beasts,” and 
. travellers and poets have invested him 
'lUd attributes of courage, generosity, 
magnanimity, as are not altogether con- 
med by the observations of modern writers 
^naturalists. 
uu lion is spread over the whole continent 
