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The Lion of Florence.—Towards the end of the seventeenth century, a lion escaped from the menagerie of the Grand Duke of Florence, and ran through the streets of that ciiy. A woman flying from his fury, with her infant in her arms, dropt it in her flight, when it was immediately seized upon by the lion. Frantic at the disaster, she threw herself on her before the animal, and implored with all the energy and expression of a mother in despair, the life of her child. The lion stopped, —fixed his eyes upon her, —placed the infant upon the ground, without having done it the emallesi injury, and departed.

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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 44, 29 August 1850, Page 4

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Untitled Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 44, 29 August 1850, Page 4

Untitled Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 44, 29 August 1850, Page 4

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