Androcles in the Louvre and showed Androcles tending the lion's paw. In the 19th century Androcles became a subject for French table ornaments. One from 1820 shows him sword in hand in the arena as the lion crouches at his feet, while another from 1825 has him tending the injured paw. About 1898, Jean-Léon Gérôme, who was soon to paint that scene too, produced a sculpture of Androcles leading the lion about on his tour of the Roman taverns. Titled "Le Mendiant" (the beggar), it is made of bronze gilt and shows the former slave standing with one hand on the
From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet demons, it was subsequently collected in the expanded version of "Deathbird Stories", published in 2011 by Subterranean Press. From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" is a work by Harlan Ellison, a collection of 26 (one for each letter of the alphabet) extremely short stories on abstract and basically unrelated topics, displaying various aspects of Ellison's preoccupations with morality, mythology, the trivia of history, and humor. He wrote the collection in three days in the window of a bookstore. "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" appeared in the October