A KORLE ANIMAL. 
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clemency I will not say) desired the keeper to be 
cast off and go to his friend. It is impossible to 
describe the joy evinced by the lion ; he licked with 
care the mangled and bleeding back of the cruelly 
treated seaman, caressed him with his paws, which 
he folded around the man as if to defy any one re¬ 
newing a similar treatment, and it was only after 
several hours that £ Prince’ would allow the keeper 
to quit his protection, and return among those who 
had so ill-used him.” 
The lion, moreover, on meeting again after 
lengthened absence with his former master or keeper, 
not unfrequently evinces the greatest possible plea¬ 
sure. This was remarkably shown in the case of am 
animal named “ Hubert,” reared from infancy by 
M. Gdrard, but from whom he had been long sepa¬ 
rated. The touching scene that occurred when they 
again met, which was at the Jardin des Plantes , 
in Paris, is thus described by the bold hunter. 
“ On entering the gallery called des betes feroces , I 
was surprised at the state of the cages in which the 
animals are condemned to live in fatal inactivity. I 
was painfully impressed, especially by the pestilential 
odour they exhale, causing a corrupt atmosphere, 
which the hyasnas, dirty and impure beasts if ever 
there were any, may perhaps endure, but which 
must necessarily destroy the lions and panthers, 
those splendid animals, with their neat, well polished 
coats, who are cleanliness itself. 
“ While still under the painful influence which 
had oppressed me at my entrance, I was slowly 
progressing towards my lion’s cage. 
