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Show H HAD NO CAUSE TO BE AFRAID. H Very Harmless "Tiger" Was Irish- H x man's Companion In Cage. H The niar.i'"r of a wild animal show H was so imfortuuate as to loso by death H ""'0 only lion In his collection. After H trying In vain to replace tho loss ho H ilually secured an Irishman to appear H in his exhibition on nil fours In the H lion's cage, wrapped In tho dead H Iju t's skin. This plan worked well B ono gh for a while, nnd tho public H wns fooled. Ono night, however, it bc- H came necessary, In the coutbo of one H performance, for tho lion to enter tho H, tiger's cage. Pat pleaded strenuously H behind tho scenes against bolng sent H Into tho other mnneater'n presence; B but his employer was unyielding, ns- H curing him repeatedly that the tlgor H v was Iiarmlcss. Though woll-nlgd dead B with fear, Pat, after long and vigorous H Iicraunslon, nt laBt crnwlcd Into tho H tiger's cage. No sooner was ho In the H cago than ho lost whnt little courage H ho had left, and lay down, calling In a H: hoarso whlspor, "Plenso don't bito mo; PPJI I ain't no lion; I'm nn Irishman." The IMgcr appeared thoroughly disgusted, cud in a moment he growled back, "Shut up, you fooj, bo 11111 1." Harper's Har-per's Weekly. |