IN A SWISS CIRCUS
CHAPTER FROM LORD LONSDALE’S LIFE. Press Association—-By Tolcgrtph—CopyrijM. LONDON, December 23. Lord Lonsdale made a startling revelation when speaking at a luncheon in connection with the International Circus Olympiad. He said that when a lad of seventeen ho ran away from homo and performed in a Swiss circus for eighteen months. _ Ho was an expert rider, and could think of no other method of earning a livelihood. Ho did acrobatic tricks on and oft horseback, and travelled up and down Switzerland on a tour. He had thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and had never lost his interest in the circus profession. Lord Lonsdale added that he had himself pot a pony which would sit up and beg. Nobody had taught the trick to Die pony; it had copied it from a dog. That, he said, was the way animals should lie trained. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 6
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149IN A SWISS CIRCUS Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 6
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