ANDROCLUS AND THE LION.

Androclus was a runaway Roman slave, who took refuge in a cavern.

A lion entered, and instead of tearing him to pieces, lifted up its fore-paw that Androclus might extract from it a thorn.

The story being told of this strange behavior, Androclus was forthwith set free.

It made me somehow feel as though I were one of Asp's Fables, or were being translated into English as that old school-room horror of Androclus and the Lion.