vt ANIMAL TRAINING AND INTELLIGENCE 169 
The instant the platform rests they leap off, rush 
over to the palisade, and follow one another around 
it in a swift, creeping trot, seeking some outlet, and 
now and then pausing with upraised heads to gaze 
through the thick bars or to examine whether it 
may be possible to leap over that bristling hedge. 
This is their first, natural, invariable behavior — 
their march of display, like the grand procession 
that begins the circus. Not until it has been done, 
not until they have let themselves be seen as they 
might look when stealing through the twilight of 
the desert, not until they have again satisfied them- 
selves that they cannot escape, do the trainers 
crack their whips, call them by name, and put the 
huge beasts clustering about their feet through the 
‘leapings, groupings, and various familiar tricks 
they have been instructed in. When the pro- 
gramme has been finished the lions return to the 
platform and sink out of sight. 
The same thing has been seen more lately in 
the United States, except that the dramatic en- 
trance upon a rising platform was dispensed with, 
and the brutes came bounding into the arena 
through a side door in the palisade. 
Trained elephants probably come next to these 
great cats in popular esteem; but none of their 
show tricks, in my opinion, evince their sagacity 
as well as the feats they do in the Orient for some 
useful purpose, under the tutelage of the native 
mahouts, especially in moving and piling timber. 
