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at last, yielding to the inevitable, she threw herself down, stretched her 
head over her extended forepaws, and closed her eyes. As plainly as 
words could utter she said by her attitude: “There now, go on, I don’t 
want it. You see how good I am!” 
Satisfied that she would have no unpleasant interruption to her 
meal, Whizzy started, and when she could eat no more — she never could 
get beyond her own morsel — she rose, licking her lips, and then barked 
her commands to her adopted child to come and eat what was left. 
Without the faintest show of resentment the lioness took what was set 
before her and was thankful. 
In a bad mood. 
Those who waited to find out the facts regarding the partnership 
were satisfied; those who did not wait went home and wrote letters to 
the director or to the Zoological Society, or to the Society for the Protec- 
tion of Animals, demanding that such an iniquitous piece of cruelty 
should be stopped at once. So many letters were received by the latter 
society that at last the secretary decided to go out to the gardens and 
make investigations. After he had watched the pair at their daily 
meal, he said: 
“Pm satisfied there is cruelty in this business — but it is cruelty to 
the lioness, not to the dog!” 
