THE LEOPARD. 
Ill 
ance, though Annie, who had never been 
there before, pronounced it the dirtiest place 
she ever saw; and Sarah Anne had been 
washing her brother’s face and combing his 
hair, as she had seen it done the day before. 
Miss Winston commended her nursing, and 
asked her to come up to The Meadows after 
dinner and get some things for Jack, pro¬ 
mising to send some more ice,—the only 
thing he seemed to care for. 
When they met in the evening, it seemed 
at first as though the sick boy’s case would 
exclude every other topic of conversation; 
and it was not till Annie had several times 
reminded the boys that the evening was 
slipping away that they composed them¬ 
selves to listen. 
“ The leopard, and its near relation the 
panther,” said Miss Louisa, “ abound princi¬ 
pally in Africa and Asia, where they have 
always been found in great numbers from the 
earliest times. In the days of the Roman 
Empire, when the cruel games of the amphi¬ 
theatre flourished, multitudes of these beau¬ 
tiful animals were every year sacrificed to 
the bloodthirsty tastes of the populace, who 
looked on with delight from their secure seats 
