The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-28
THE KING HAS PETS,
fssiS REFERS 70 fss5 LION ANp Ut
rLE ANNALS s,= LOVES.

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ne Nay hsclas ggess sAe ttay creatures
~ sss.aal hls - = STEADY. IT ta4V * thar
sAegv - sczse ssssasl language, aaa shat
d. Ae.s-t,t ~ gAe hgste s.scass " hieA s.sV-
81 sAe tsca'S be ~ ssswsas she RET has
heecsss kecwa - TIE leazeRs ~ che
lsssgse AND AseIe1 GoWa - animal folk
lore, * y rssN ~ shts he ktag ~ t,easts
Aas . sSssgsVe ccHses.spE RcE ANYTHING sx-
ss~seely ssas1,. osss ~ - nevertheless =
sacs EAss hcnS Val aog sEsscS siav AMI
pssNs WAes ghey axe pax together, Ply
sssscE Edward Darling, EA2. wsscaa there
= -, .scr~ profound SEssiens ~ : hcn'S
Gle xs-1 character ~ the country. has
=ssas s.ss;y curious expegsasntS with
rs ave ~ eesssS,
- psVsS SAW hon kali = rat or a
secGss. said Professor Darling. and
lave As& s,ssaS ~ chem pGt - the cage
wssA ray SNs hons Ny attention was
S-ss 3-swa - shSs when Was On nav
way e-eEs isca1o2 - Bsssvia. ~ Java,
&C 80 SA;P SosSnGo. lali r,,y tve io.,s
w;.A NE. ard - The quarter ~ the ship
- Wiki they were housed were MANY
-s-S. Oes isv ] saw Leo. my faVorite
&cr. tyi>sS down. ard holding between
hsS rawS very tocSsly = rnocS.sr ship rat.
Thought YS-hspS thar The car t.,Stir,c.
- sAs hon hlSf made hSr-, catch IL and
IA BE wVc,i probably play with il
zwAl,s. then sa- y, A2& ~ watched. I'm.
<S.-s. however. my surprise when saw
ks-. icCSsc The -ar. and The ~ made no
x.rSr-rs - sci away, bat ran MP and
over rs scSz=ric paws and PLAYED with
ES-,
We wee = lCcS rir,s making = trip,
S=i every day this SA;p'S rSr wen. into
Lsc's eSSs. and the TWO played toSsshsr
- gently zS two h-rls children. made
several attempts - capture the RAT. hop
i-S tAas perhaps l.sShs take II ashore
WITH re. bc- cccli 10. succeed. aud I
v-oE-.<s yC1 that oil Leo DID rOs like as
al nv attempting - interfere with his
PET Wien We gUs 70 Java we had -
saSs tss lion oct. and Leo had 70 Lose his
ps-- Re could have killed tina. rzr =
choCS12G TINES, bur hs never did IT.
There was another instance subSS-
~h;ch makes ne believe thzr the lion has
= -S1l fCcGnsSs for the rodent II WAS
II ISL u Calcutta We were playing Sc
-hs Nxsisr. one OF those gigantic places
n FIR India. and when / went IN 70 see
nv pets one morning saw that Leo had
f1wi Snochs- rs< for pet Ny FIVE
EcrS were al together, bur this rat would
Play only with Leo There wee many
o-ts- rats IN the place. bur the other
Ecrs would ro- look az them II seems
20 ne 20 Be fact that the hons consider
these little animals too small 20 De touch
81 ! have known OF rats being found
dead N lions cage. but / believe that
they were simply killed by the hon roll
Irg On then Or s-=ppingon them through
cz-slsSScsSS- bur Hons never eat thsn-
In Hamburg once knew a case OF a
sex r-E 70 whom Il was deemed nsces-
say % give soUs, fresh warm blood 70
tore I'D his system and 70 further this
md I've rabbit was put IN the cage
with The tiger. One would naturally
SUPPOSE that the tiger would have killed
= Instantly. but such however. was 10.
tte case TIE uzs- played with the raO-
on for days before h wO1ld touch r.
He finally killed and ate II
-N0~, Ely tLeory = this ! hon, or q
rzzr, @ II fact any Wild animal kept
alone, grOEs very lonesome In their
natural state Wild beasts always run IN
pzI-s- Thy love compeniOnship, and
WHEN u. zlOne they become 50 lonesome
that Ehsn another animal. even though
Il L q rabbit, Is put n the same cage
with tneu- they refrain from killing It so
- 70 have IL companiOlzhip- We have
hard OF many instances Of men being
zICue-zhiipEreck II you Hke-maEng
strange friends Why nOs EOn= L al
WAYS made 1ns feel rather bad % think
u this tiger u Hamburg killing his little
friend Sui even men a. TINES turn on
Their Eisnds-
Nov. there i another peculiar thing
about EOns,@ added Professor Darling,
and that L that they VIII not eat the
fesn q fowl You might tempt them
with = czrTzsbzck duck OF the dzintiest
sgzzb, but they world refuse L. This -
= scientific fact have tried u many
ttzes- remember once having swan
which hz6 broken IL wing. We killed
L dressed u carefully and threw Il into
ths car Of the lions, bat they would nos
teach i, and Sc finally had % be taken
at and thrown away. I have repeated
y ut p5zso-s alive into the cage, Just
y, 49, xnas they world Do. have
-hroz-n rain dorm among the Mons, and
ne ufzsons have actually got down and
h1--ed zroznd the biz DTutss, even hop
r51S On taef- hacks, the lions making no
s.-eTars 70 disturb them, even SEEMING
u e-to7 thsir cor. partnership,
Vow. there u something strange
49,. tsfs which il rather difficult % *,
Lin Il, nv mind 81 argues that 2 lion
= -. tz--.rsI In. hfs instincts. ssavals h.
.r.doubtsdIy ia. Fierce at al times but
ssrcs with justice. ! believe every one
oS roY lions has = conscience J kho"
ezs7 ore IL them knows me d1fisTsT'cs