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put up a tent inside the walls of Paris. I often 

 saw him after that, and he gave me a letter to 

 King Victor Emmanuel, who was always very 

 good to me. I've given a performance in the 

 old Eoman Amphitheatre, and there must have 

 been 70,000 or 80,000 people there." 



This, and very much more, Mr. Tanring 

 relates [in his own peculiarly graphic style as we 

 stroll about the building. One most admirable 

 feature about the circus is that hmchiess to the 

 horses seems to be the rule. The proprietor 

 declares that the more he sees of horses the 

 more intelligent he finds them ; and the manner 

 in which the lion tamer has trained his elephants 

 and lions is marvellous. The former huge 

 creatures waltz about in pairs, stand on their 

 heads with startling agility, and seem to under- 

 stand every motion of their master's hand. 



'' But notice how the tamer comes out of 

 the lions' den," says a friend who is with me. 

 " He slips out very quickly, and there's one lion 

 that always jumps after him as if it regretted 

 having missed its opportunity of having man for 

 supper." 



So surely enough the lion does, with what 

 seems like an angry snarl ; but on asking their 

 master whether the lion is anxious to eat him, 

 he smiles quietly at the notion. 



