Show A ADVEl ADVENTURE iTURE how limy he ile was wa saved from ilip lh jans jaws or r a mon gazette gazelle au old sho showman inan tells the following exe exciting itzig story of hi his s experience when connected with a 1 we well experience known menagerie during an engagement at bland ky after the exhibition was wm over he lie says 1 I passed into the menagerie ta to talk watchman prom some cause causo lie was absent from his post t and I 1 walked across tb the e a amphitheater in Phi phi 01 theater towards my old friend pa th tho elephant to give him nn an apple fo for r we were the best of friends he ile was one of the largest elephants I 1 ever ealand saw and was as ai good natured as he was large I 1 was about halfway across the ring when I 1 heard a crowland grow growl land and looking around saw to my horror ono one of the lions out of his cage and approaching roe me in in a catlike manner ready for ft a spring I 1 thought of a thousand things in a moment and find among them 1 i roust must have regretted perpetrating so many old at the performance that night I 1 had bad sufficient pr presence es ence of mind to realize my dan gerou situation and to know that it require the utmost caution to extricate myself from it one hasty motion on my part and I 1 would be in the jaws of the monster I 1 felt that my only hope was the elephant if I 1 could reach him but he was chained by the foot and could not reach me nearer and nearer came the lion waving r his tail in a manner which meant business if I 1 turned my back he would spring if I 1 took my eyes from him I 1 was hobt it was a terrible moment I 1 glided backward swiftly os Ps I 1 dared I 1 had another fear I 1 feared stumbling backward and knew linew if I 1 ever did fall I 1 would never rise but that where I 1 fell I 1 would make a meal for that lion As I 1 neared the ele pliant ant I 1 saw that phelion tho lion understood tooThy my movements all and d fearing lie would be balked of his prey lie prepared to bring the matter to a crisis ithen I 1 then saw that I 1 had lad but one hope to rush with all fill my speed to the elephant 1 I think I 1 must have jumped um pe d 20 feet when I 1 turned and 1 know the lion i jumped M I 1 I 1 ed 30 but he missed me ine how hol I 1 C completed the race I 1 do not know I 1 only know that the elephants trunk was around my waist and lie was lifting me up on his head I 1 only know I 1 was saved |