The Animal Story Book - online children's book

Edited By Andrew Lang And With Numerous Illustrations By H. J. Ford

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	STORIES ABOUT LIONS	297
	tiou. This period in the history of the lion is the most disastrous to the shepherds and their flocks, for then the
	lion goes about killing for the sake of learning to kill. At three years they leave their parents and set up families of
	THE LION CAUGHT IN THE PIT
	their own, but it is only at the age of eight that they attain their full size and strength, and, in the case of the male, his full mane.