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condition, in good tempers, and had been 

 particularly good and obedient all that week. 

 He went to Pluto, patted and comforted him, 

 and thought very little more about the mat- 

 ter, except to take extra precautions. But 

 just before he entered the arena with his 

 twenty-seven lions, Pluto- did the same thing 

 again, and his master, who was then in the 

 runway— a narrow passage which runs be- 

 hind the animals' cages — wondered what was 

 the matter with the dog. 



However, he had not time to think much 

 about it then, for at that very moment the 

 signal came for him to go on, the band played 

 his announcing "chord" and, with twenty- 

 seven full-grown lions in front of him, he 

 entered the arena and began to put the beasts 

 through their performances. He had not gone 

 far before he noticed that one of his lions, 

 Ingomar, was in a very ugly mood, and after 

 the first few minutes refused to do anything 

 he was told. This is very dangerous because, 

 in nearly all cases when one trained animal 

 will not do what he is told, all the others f ol- 



