io8 MENAGERIE ANIMALS 



highest class of * lion-tamers ' have qualities other than 

 mere courage, part being, no doubt, an almost magnetic 

 intuition of the working of the creature's mind, and the 

 power of conveying impressions to the animal and 

 engendering confidence. The old Irishman known as 

 * The Whisperer ' was the classic instance of this kind 

 of real tamer of savage animals. Pezon himself 

 possessed it in a high degree, for he began his 

 reputation as a pacifier of vicious horses and savage 

 bulls in the village of Lozere. 



