Show vo art art but it requires nerve sa mr cross the hondon dealer in wili wild beasts 1 I received from a young frenchman ot of good family several letters in which lie requested to enter the lions dun den at my ili inhouse ing ho use la in earle street lie ile jurame that his vocation was that of i a lion tamer and one fine day he paid me a visit I 1 in in company wi with t h three of his compatriots whom lie he iliad had brought with him in order that they might ile be witnesses of hit his intrepidity ile he asked me lue if I 1 could give gise gis e hini him i a situation and pointing to a avenge age in which there were three fine adrinn lions he entreated me to allow him to put them through a performance I 1 bad just time to tell him that he might enter at his own risk when I 1 was called into tha office after the lapse of a quarter of an hour a man rushed up to the desk where I 1 was writing and exclaimed excitedly mr cross one of tho the lions is out where reile I 1 asked to which he replied loose in the building on hurrying to the spot I 1 found the iho door of the den open and we frenchman inside with liis his back against the wooden partition and two of the lions lion staring inc him in the face while the escaped ace C p ed lion had made for the end of the narrow pass passage where isherw it was 0 meditating mischief nii mis chief thief to the other 1 who had taken t a ken refuge on the top of a pile of boxes their faces face as white as a sheet tho the first thing hing I 1 did was to close tile the door leading calling IQ the yard and next to get the he amateur lion tamer ouk oo 00 of the den it was well for him that one oae of the lions kad had got out of the cage the oilier two were so amazed at the fact that the they y remained for a minute or two perfectly still we had great difficulty in making the third lion reenter re enter the den i but lit at anit wo ITO not however without sonio danger after chii had been done I 1 myself went into the cage with no weapon and simply smoking it cigar my entrance iva was 1 I ili the e signal tor for tremendous bounding backward and f orward forward on oil the part of tile the beasts which wc were rc evidently not a 1 little terrified at oneff one of their companions pani onit having escaped As I 1 calmly within the lie deai dei with my eyes cacs fixed on the excited animals I 1 eai aid eaid e d you see ec there is ims noart no art in lion tam tain ingi ing but it requires nerve I 1 think tile the result of that afternoons adventure quite cured the young frenchman if his n a vi it |