It thrives about as well in one clime as another, with perhaps a little preference for the temperate zone.

It lives on berries, or bananas, or corn, grapes, or artichokes; drinks water, or alcohol, or tea.

It eats up a great many children, and would have destroyed the boy who afterward became the father of his country had he not driven it back with his hatchet.

(See the last two hundred Sunday-school addresses.) The first peculiarity of this Tigris regalis or Felis pardus, commonly called a lie, is its LONGEVITY.
If it once get born, it lives on almost interminably.

Sometimes it has followed a man for ten, twenty or forty years, and has been as healthy in its last leap as in the first.