Show haits HABITS OF THE llor lio the lion never attacks a man who ia naked ad and for that reason those who are on a thievish excursion always divest of 0 their cip elp thin thiD ile lie re their persona persons because they are engaged in an occupation similar to his own but if a man retains as much of his bis clothing as is worn by a coolie in india the lion look looks is upon hl him im as one who is not heart and soul in hi his s business with much the same sort of feeling in fact as we at home bome regard a man who rows in gloves he walks round and round him playfully whisking his tail in his face varying his amusement by occasionally stopping in front of him drawing back his bia lips so as to show his enormous teeth and uttering the most terrific roars further on he will perhaps leave him and strike off into the woods his bis wretch ed victim hurries along T thinking that his bis tor mentor has left him altogether but all of a sudden the lion will spring from behind a rock or an angle in the road and with a stroke of his bis paw send him reeling backwards precisely as we have seen a cat play with a mouse when he is tired of this amusement be ends enda the dreadful anxiety of his bis victim by killing him outright the man who is dressed in the ordinary way does not obtain this horrible reprieve for the lion lays bold boid of him and destroys him at once it if a party of naked arabs are returning with their plunder and they meet with a lion they wait respectfully until the animal has seized the beast to which be he may take a fancy and then continue their journey homewards walting waiting until they think they are beyond his hearing before they venture to call him the most opprobrious rious names for they entertain an opinion that the lion understands what is said to him |