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I. QUADRUPEDS, OR FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 
I. Carnivorous, or Flesh- eating Animals. 
THE LION. (FelisLeo.) 
What if the Lion in his rage I meet ? 
Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : 
And, fearful oft when Day's declining light 
Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night, 
By hunger roused, he scours the groaning plain, 
Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : 
Before them Death, with shrieks, directs their way, 
Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey. COLLINS. 
THE LION is called the king of beasts, not only from his 
grave and majestic appearance, but from his prodigious 
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