title: King Solomon's Mines (Oxford Progressive English Readers)
author: H. Rider Haggard
description: Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), born in Norfolk, England, was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in locations considered exotic by readers in his native England.
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  #### A Tale of Three Lions
  
  
  CHAPTER I. THE INTEREST ON TEN SHILLINGS
  
  CHAPTER II. WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE POOL
  
  CHAPTER III. JIM-JIM IS AVENGED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # A Tale of Three Lions
  
  
  ### H. Rider Haggard
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. THE INTEREST ON TEN SHILLINGS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the
  
  
  party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and
  
  
  who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry
  
  
  Curtis. He went back to the wilderness again, as these old hunters
  
  
  almost invariably do, on one pretext or another.[*] They cannot endure
  
  
  civilization for very long, its noise and racket and the omnipresence
  
  
  of broad-clothed humanity proving more trying to their nerves than the
  
  
  dangers of the desert. I think that they feel lonely here, for it is a
  
  
  fact that is too little understood, though it has often been stated,
  
  
  that there is no loneliness like 