GATHERED BY THE WAY 
veloped. The lion learns slowly through association 
—through repeated sense impressions. First a long 
stick is put into his cage. If this is destroyed, it is 
replaced by another, until he gets used to it and tol- 
erates its presence. Then he is gently rubbed with 
it at the hands of his keeper. He gets used to this 
and comes to like it. Then the stick is baited with 
a piece of meat, and in taking the meat the animal 
gets still better acquainted with the stick, and so 
ceases to fear it. When this stage is reached, the 
stick is shortened day by day, “until finally it is not 
much longer than the hand.” The next step is to let 
the hand take the place of the stick in the stroking 
process. “This is a great step taken, for one of the 
most difficult things is to get any wild animal to allow 
himself to be touched with the human hand.” Aftera 
time a collar with a chain attached is slipped around 
the lion’s neck when he is asleep. He is now chained 
to one end of the cage. Then a chair is introduced 
into the cage; whereupon this king of beasts, whose 
reason is being developed, and who has such clear 
notions of inferior and superior, and who knows his 
own powers, usually springs for the chair, seeking to 
- demolish it. His tether prevents his reaching it, and 
so in time he tolerates the chair. Then the trainer, 
after some preliminary feints, walks into the cage 
and seats himself in the chair. And so, inch by inch, 
as it were, the trainer gets control of the animal 
and subdues him to his purposes, not by appealing 
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