THE LION. 
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Scottish blood of some of my countrymen, 
to get impatient ; and three of them 
their determination to march in 
beard the lion in his den, provided three 
^be Hottentots, who w^ere superior marks- 
Would support them, and follow up the 
should the enemy venture to give battle. 
^cordingly, in they went, in spite of the warn- 
§s of some more prudent men among us, to 
m fifteen or twenty paces of the spot 
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^bere the animal lay concealed. He was 
J^'Wched among the roots of a large evergreen 
^*b, -with a small space of open ground on 
side of it ; and they fancied, on approach- 
that they saw him distinctly lying glaring 
'■bein from under the foliage. Charging the 
^^^staards to stand firm and level fair, should 
Qiiss, the Scottish champions let fly to- 
ber, and struck — not the lion, as it after- 
^^I'ds proved, but a great block of red stone, 
®yond which he was actually lying. Whe- 
