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." After a 

 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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