FIDELITY OF A LION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 4

FIDELITY OF A LION.

The circumot-ujces attun>:iog the recent death of an Am. ricao hon-tam^r. n mfl>i Stewar-, are really ye y v uc^>n4 -» illnsttanve of the «incert y of >.ff ttou tVat may exiat b< tween man and beast. Somo months Bgo it m LarnueJ th«t ao Individual — now ptorei to t aye bean tne lion tamer m question— came tn ihe suburb of Romßovii c, j >st c ut-ide Paris, to t ke up his abod« iv a cotttf^o there He appealed to bu of a mi*HUthropic<vl torn of miud, of stianuf w«ys and insisted on un'oH^iofe himatlf, m the Otmoßt stcreay, the Urg- »a gin he alleged to cootbin his ho echo d belongInge. The purple m the netuhrmrh ud marvelled ub or h : ra, aT.d then forgot him, for be was r^re y seen ouv of d( or» excej t'ng when he wni.t to the m*rkei to parcha?e la>ge quhutitits uf the comtnoueat kind of meat A week or b . ago, however, it w-s rem*rkeii by the gossips of the lccality tt at the strantjflr h»J noi been _een for tome t me st the market p ace. and the aitenti >v of the ao horitiex was called to the circumatauce. The cottage was forcitjfy irntaied, no oue within responding to the oema: da for adm Bai"Q, and the corpse of the iii>n tamer, who bad fallen upon evil days, was discovered m one of ihe room*, <-ver the remains b<-ing stretched the lifel^as body <f an old lion. It ia suppo»ed th,; deceast d scccumbt-d to an apoplectic stroke, «nri t^»t the fithfal lion l.y o-lo ly down to die of grief aud hunger by the aide of its »n»Bt r