Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...to whom he confided the duty of cleaning the cages. On the morrow, when he went into the menagerie, the master paused aghast. His new servant had quietly entered the cage as though it were a stall, and was giving the lion some heavy blows with his broom handle to clean between his paws. At the Folies Bergere a lioness was at one time exhibited by Colonel Bone, who was taking her round the world. This animal was so savage that it was necessary to chain her into the cage with an iron collar. When the colonel merelypassed near the den she would fling herself against the bars with such fury that the whole car trembled. But one day one of the managers of the theatre was inspecting the side scenes and witnessed the following incident: the colonel's servant wras installed in the cage, quietly painting a back ground of savannah on a canvas stretched over the floor. The lioness was unchained and watched him as a dog watches a fisherman, stealthily licking the green paint from time to time; the result being an attack of colic which nearly sent her to roar in another world. I, who now address you, have entered a black-maned lion's cage quite recently. Oh! do not exclaim at my heroism. A great many people have visited this captive king of the desert; first, Tartarin, then all the Marseillais, then Mademoiselle Roselia Rousseil, who on a similar occasion dedicated a poem to Bidel, entitled, La Mort du Lion, on le Dompteur par Amour The Lions Death; or, The Tamer by Love) which commenced with these lines: C'est tin vaillant dompteur, jamais il ne recule. Son corps semble petri par les dieux; Ton croit voir La grace d'Apollon dans la force d'Hercule. Pour moi, j'aime surtout son grand ceil doux si noir.1 I did not visit the lion in order to write verses to him. I merely w...
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