An Army Reviewed By A Lion

ihe author ol the recent wrk. ou Algeria relates the following incident whieh occurred while marching with a body ol French troops on their way to attack the Kabyles: We had ridden carelosoly lorward, admiring the view, orspeculatingon the game to befound in those raountain passes, when the sudden halt and the unslinging oí carbines startled us. pust the rear files, o guiJupod to the front just in lime to prevent the sergeant, who led the advance, firing at a noble lion, who advancing tovvard the same path which we were pursuing, had halted abruptly at our view. He had evidently come from a different direction to the one we were pursuing, and was making to the very pile of the inountains whose sombre color had excited our curiosity. Five minutea later and we should not have soen him; but as ithappened, there hestood, evidently very much astonished ui thus p umpingsuddenly oa so lurge a party. Were we to fire, we should doubtless either kill or mortally wound the animal. In the first case, all would be well, and we should be the richar by a lion kin; in the second placo, vvo should be sure to lose one or more men, and it was a responsibiüty the young offioer in cornmand would not assume. Hastily giving ihe order to unsling carbines, he closed up the men with some difficulty, for the horsea were restive, In case the lion showed a disposition to a.tack all were to face toward him, and it was to be hoped that the general disharge would prove mortal. If disposed to let U8 do so, we were to pass bim quietly. I have often heard that the lion by day in no way resembles the same animal by night. During the darknoes, seeking his prey where he ca find it, he will attack anything with the great est ferocity; but during the day time, it boing his proper period for sleep, and being besides, generally gorged with food, heseldom attacks mao. In the present instance, I had little confidence in our ure for our horses, as their riders approached their dreaded enemy, bouaine more and more alarmed and restive. Tho lion was, doubtless , the one we had heard roar in the distance the previous night, and he had been to the other side, seeking his food among the donors of tke native tribes,near Tenient, from whieh he was now returning to hia den. Our files well closed up, wo neared the lion, who showed no symptoms of fear; gazed at us, not savagcly, but apparently with great curiosity. Then he moved his tail to and fro like a large cat; and as we neared him he deliberately sat down on his hind-quarters, looking the, for all then world like a queer colored Newfoundland dog. - JU6t as we rangcd with him, passing by in single file, tho horses' heads and tails were together, he opened his huge mouth with a mighty yawn, utteriug as he did so, a sound botweon a heavy sigh and a growí. This he did without rising, and in a most sleepy manner, as though he were supremely indifferent to our presence. All this time our horses were terribly excited, and my own, a jot black Öyrian barb, which had carried me many a mile over the plainsof Wallachia and Koumelia, and who from his intense love of mischiefand fighting, I had long 6Ínce christened Eshi-J3azouski, was now completely cowed, and though walking at a very sloiv pace, his black coat was all whito with foam. I was not fifteen paces from the lion, and I could not reist the fancy that seized me to reign in and look at him. Tremblingin eyery litab, my horse obeyed me, and as the roar files of our escort moved past, 1 contemplated the noble bruto. He was a splendid male, of the color called by the natives the black kon, and which, they say, Is the most fierco and terrible of all. He seeined sleepy and quiet enough just then, and did not even look at us. Tho jangling oí the men'8 arms appeared to cutch bis attentiou; and it wa indeed, but a moment's space that was allowed rne for contemplation, for a slight more on his part caused my horse to bound asido so as almost to unhorse me, and when 'I recovered my seat and my power over ■ my frightened eteed, the sleepy fellow bad deliberately lain down, and rosting ris noble head on two mighty pawB, he "olio wed ub with his oyes as we moved 3'lowly away. ,0 ''"É' I " Mr. Smith, you said you once offireated ia the pulpit ; did you mean by iv at that vou preached V" " No, eir ; I held the light for the in who did preach." ht 'Ah, the court understood you difht ently. They eupposed tbat the dish- rse carne directly from you." im No, eir, I only tbrowed a little light k