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" Only a little trick I taught him," he 

 explains. " I always have one to do that, and if 

 you notice you'll see he doesn't jump at the 

 door, but a little above it. There's another in 

 the cage that has been taught to do it." 



How this courageous man gives his cue to the 

 lion that is to jump, and makes the other under- 

 stand that he is to be quiet, are some among the 

 many mysteries of Tanring's Hippodrome. 



