Life — April 12, 1900 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE LION AND THE BOAR. From Azop. N a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment toa small well to drink. They fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat. On their stopping on a sudden to take breath for the fiercer renewal of the strife, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one which should fall first. They at once made up their quarrel, saying: ‘It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures.” Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to bencfit themselves.