WHAT HE FEARED.
An advance agent, who once travelled on behalf of a circus, has many stories to tell of the tricks and manners of the show people, and of their wild animals. "In the days just before his death , the famous tamer and trainer," he said, "developed a fear of bronchitis, which grew to be a regular nervous mania. He would go into the cage with a snarling lioness with young cnbs without the slightest fear, and was very much afraid of the slightest draught. "One day, after an exhibition fight with the fiercest lion we had, he came ont of the cage and said to mc: — " 'Topi, this will prove the end of mc yet." " '<3ood gracious, -,*, I said, 'you aren't losing your nerve? You surely aren't getting afraid of that brute •' " 'Afraid of that dog!' he said, disgustedly. "Afraid of my hat! Nothing of the sort- But these cages are the worst places for draughts in the country. I krj,pw I'll catch a cough, some day 1 that'll prove my death.;."-
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 1 April 1905, Page 10
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174WHAT HE FEARED. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 1 April 1905, Page 10
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