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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 14 KEMEDY FOR AN INVALID. " Oh, very vell! take him in; I '11 be down directly." And the artist, rightly supposing that some friend had borne him in remembrance, but not having the most remote idea whether it was a living or a defunct lion which had thus unexpectedly paid him an early visit, hurried his toilet, and descending to his back yard, beheld the grisly monarch stretched at length upon the stones; a few minutes sufficed to arrange his materials, and so struck was he with the noble object before him, that he ceased not from his work till the picture, as exhibited, was completed. The veterinary art must have been rather low among the Eomans, if we may judge from the following ludicrous prescription for a sick lion, given us by Pliny. " The lion is never sicke but of the peevishness of his stomacke, loathing all meat; and then the way to cure him, is to ty unto him certaine shee apes, which, with their wanton mocking and making mowes at him, may move his patience, and drive him from the very indig- nitie of their malapert saucinesse into a fit of mad- nesse, and then, so soon as he hath tasted their bloud, he is perfectly wel againe; and this is the only help." To be licked by the tongue of a dog is a mark of affection ; but such a demonstration from a lion would be productive of unpleasant consequences. The tongue in the lion and tiger tribes is covered with a thicket Holland's Pliny, chapter xvi.: ed. 1635.STILLNESS. 18 of strong horny papillae, the points directed backward, fitting it rather for sweeping off fragments of meat from bones, for which it is especially employed, than for gustatory enjoyment or expression of endearment. The sense of taste is very low in all the felinae, of which an example is presented in that favourite amusement of cat
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