d up his leg as
well as he could; and then he began to think how he could pass the night
without danger. To rest on the bosom of the earth was not safe; another
jackal might come after the first to help him pick the bones. To be sure
he might regain the ship--but SUSAN!! At last he concluded he would
leave the earth, and climb a tree. After much toil, and terrible
scratching and scrambling, he managed to get into an immense tree, and
settling himself in a fork like an arm-chair, he fell into a troubled
sleep.

[Illustration: THE ANACONDA THAT HARRY KILLED.]

"The first rays of the sun awoke our hero. Just as he was about to
descend from the tree, he heard a slight noise above. He looked up, and
there he saw (oh! oh! what I hope you may never see except in a
Menagerie or Barnum's Museum) an enormous boa constrictor, at least
fifty feet long, suspended from the top boughs of the tree, twisting
about. With a fierce and horrible hiss, which froze the blood in Harry's
veins, he twisted, and turned, and looked at the terrified boy.

"Harry screamed aloud. He had read of this dreadful monster, how he
thought nothing of swallowing a bull whole for his breakfast; and, of
course, our young friend would be only a side dish--a mere trifle. The
boa advanced towards him with another dreadful hiss, which seemed to
say--'Here's a nice little mouthful! wait for me.'

"But Harry was determined to make one desperate attempt to postpone the
feast. He slid down the trunk of the tree like lightning, and when he
stood on the ground he did not stop to ascertain which way the wind
blew, but ran like a rail car, under full steam, panting and screaming
very much as they do.

"All at once he stopped short, for a terrible roaring, like an immense
peal of thunder, shook the earth. What was it? Oh, mercy! it was a great
lion who was just waking up.

[Illustration: THE LION.]

"What was the luckless, heedless boy to do? Between the lion and the boa
constrictor, Harry was certainly lost. Whichever was to eat him, it was
certain he would make a breakfast for one of them; for on turning his
head, he saw, to his increased horror, that the monstrous snake had
followed him; and at the same moment an enormous lion appeared running,
making bounds as high as the arch of a bridge.

"Harry threw himself on his knees. For one moment he was a prey to the
most agonizing despair. Then he clasped his hands together, and implored
for pardon for all his fault