GIRL'S FIGHT WITH A LION.
A lion severely mauled a girl of i fourteen who was performing in a menagerie at Montpellier on May. 13i says the " Petit Journal. The girl'was in a cage with a lion and two lionesses, when the lion attacked her'from behind and tore the flesh of her back with a blow of his paw. The audience shrieked in terror, but the girl turned instantly and heat the beast oS with her whip, keeping him at bay until she was helped out of the cage. She then fainted. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 6
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92GIRL'S FIGHT WITH A LION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 6
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