Monday, December 31.--l thought it would be worth while to make an odd experiment.
Remembering how surprisingly fond of music the lion at Edinburgh was, I determined to
try whether this was the case with all animals of the same kind. I accordingly went to the
Tower with one who plays on the German flute. He began playing near four or five lions;
only one of these (the rest not seeming to regard it at all) rose up, came to the front of his
den, and seemed to be all attention. Meantime, a tiger in the same den started up, leaped
over the lion's back, turned and ran under his belly, leaped over him again, and so to and
fro incessantly. Can we account for this by any principle of mechanism? Can we account
for it at all?
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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