2 WILD ANIMAL CELEBRITIES 



parts of the world, the inhabitants of Aus- 

 tralia, Africa, and Southern Europe taking 

 a special interest in him. Time after time 

 various trainers tried to train this lion and 

 perform with him. It has always ended most 

 seriously for the trainer, more than one man 

 having nearly lost his life. 



Only last winter Mr. Bostock, when at the 

 Hippodrome in Paris, was giving a benefit for 

 the widows and orphans of some men killed 

 in a mi nin g disaster, and undertook to per- 

 form with this lion. As a rule "Wallace be- 

 haved fairly well with Mr. Bostock, but on 

 this occasion he turned ugly in the middle of 

 the performance and severely injured his mas- 

 ter. 



Wallace created a tremendous sensation on 

 his first appearance in America sixteen years 

 ago. While the animals were lying in the 

 docks at New York, Wallace, who had been 

 in the worst of tempers during the voyage 

 owing to sickness and the unusual surround- 

 ings, became very restless and uneasy, roared 

 and paced about his cage, and tore and 



