. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL RlaroMY. uasture lands. '⢠Ami Davitl said unto Sanl, Thy servant kejit liis father's sheep, and there came a Lion, and a Bear, and took a Lamb out of the flock : and I vent out after him, and smote liim, and delivered it out of liis mouth : and when he arose against me, I caught liim by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the Lion and the ;* Another Lion-slayer is one of Daxid's " brakes "âBenaiahâ'â He went down also and slew ?. Lion in the midst of a pit in time of ;t Now
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL RlaroMY. uasture lands. '⢠Ami Davitl said unto Sanl, Thy servant kejit liis father's sheep, and there came a Lion, and a Bear, and took a Lamb out of the flock : and I vent out after him, and smote liim, and delivered it out of liis mouth : and when he arose against me, I caught liim by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the Lion and the ;* Another Lion-slayer is one of Daxid's " brakes "âBenaiahâ'â He went down also and slew ?. Lion in the midst of a pit in time of ;t Now this slight mention of the forest-king is a perfect. l;icture in a few short words. In that land of milk and honey there was snow at cei-tain seasons, and then that huge, bearded Cat was fahi to hide himself m some cleft of the rock. If, however, the term " pit" means one in which the Lion has fallen, being entrapped, the short snatch of history loses none of its interest. The calm courage of this man made him to be " more honourable than the thii-ty mighty men," in the list of David's captains. After the deportation of the ten tribes to Babylon, the number of Lions and other beasts of pi-ey must have increased to a fearful extent in Palestine, for we find the men sent by the King of to re-peoi)le the deserted cities, complaining to their monarch of the ravages of these beasts which, as they put it, had been sent " because they knew not the raanner of the God of the ; As to the favom-ite haunts of the Lion in the various coimtries where it exists, " that Lions exist in the desert," says M. Carette, " is a myth popularised bj' the dreams of artists and poets, and has no foundation but in their imagination. This animal does not quit the mountains where it finds * 1 Samuel .wii. 34-36. t 2 Samuel xxiii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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