![]() Lion after one glance bounded up to him and lay down at his feet withĮvery expression of affection and delight! It was his old friend of theĬave! The audience clamored that the slave's life should be spared. What was the amazement of the spectators, when the Rest a lion of huge bulk and ferocious aspect. On the fatal day the beasts were loosed into the arena, and among the To the beasts at the next public spectacle in the theater. Resolved to make an example of him, and ordered that he should be thrown Presently recognized and carried off in chains to his former master, who However, when the slave began to long for the society of his follow men,Īnd he bade farewell to the lion and returned to the town. He looked upon the man as hisįriend, and they shared the cave for some time together. He accordingly removed itĪnd dressed the wound as well as he could. Large thorn embedded in the ball of the foot. ![]() Observing it to be much swollen and inflamed, he examined it and found a The man gave himself up for lost.īut, to his utter astonishment, the lion, instead of springing upon him,Ĭame and fawned upon him, at the same time whining and lifting up his paw. Lion's den, and almost immediately, to the horror of the wretchedįugitive, the lion himself appeared. Which he entered and found to by unoccupied. Treated, and, in order to avoid capture, betook himself into the desert.Īs he wandered about in search of food and shelter, he came to a cave, First published 1894.Ī slave ran away from his master, by whom he had been most cruelly
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