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cage. The lion suddenly thrust out one paw 

 and tore the man's arm from the shoulder. 

 As Wallace was noted only for these blood- 

 curdling episodes, I think enough has been 

 told about him. His owner declares him to 

 be double the age of any lion that has ever 

 lived in captivity; he says he has been in 

 captivity fifty years, and that it was fifty 

 years ago that this lion fought the dogs at 

 Warwick Castle in England. He is certainly 

 a notorious lion in many ways, and I have 

 watched him many a time ; but, beyond show- 

 ing that he is of a peculiarly savage nature, 

 he does not look any different from any of 

 the other lions, except that he is now begin- 

 ning to show signs of his age. 



Miss Claire Heliot, who performed with 

 twelve lions at the New York Hippodrome 

 some time ago, had some extremely fine lions, 

 and there was one that interested me very 

 much. He was her best lion and the one she 

 was always photographed with. Some of 

 these photographs which she gave me are 

 truly wonderful, showing the nerve she must 



