If he were walking off his supper, as most of those seated aft would have suggested, the performance was not particularly interesting.

The limit and rapidity of the walk resembled the tramp of a confined animal, exercising its last meal.

But when one stands in front of the lion's cage, and sees that restless and tireless stride, one cannot but wonder how much of it is due to the last shin-bone, and how much to the wild and powerful nature under the tawny skin.

The question occurs because the nature and antecedents of the lion are known.

For this same reason the yachters were a unit in agreeing that Stirling's unceasing walk was merely a digestive promenade.