He did not do anything next. He stood with his great paw on Livingstone’s head till another man fired at him. Then he sprang on that man and bit him.
Then he sprang on a third man and bit him. And then—he rolled over, dead! So Livingstone escaped.
Livingstone afterwards visited England. The little English children used to ask him to tell them the story of how the lion shook him.
The lion belongs to the cat family. Does not the lion in the picture look like a big handsome cat?
THE LAUGHING JACKASS.
He always begins his queer cry about an hour before sunrise.
Then he is heard again just at noon, and again at sunset. So he has another name. He is called the “Bushman’s clock.”
In Australia there are great tracts of land where few white people live. These tracts of land are called “The Bush;” and the settlers on these lands are called Bushmen.
