ROAST LION AT BANQUET
Roast lion was served at a banquet in a Paris restaurant recently. "The banquet was arranged by the martaging committee of the Gingerbread Fair, and the guests included seyeral town councillors, journalists, actors, and c%^us people. ; The lion in question was not a victim of big-game hunting in Afr|ca. He was Sultan, the blind lion qf a well-known French menagerie. ■ As the oculists who had been consulted were unable to restore the aniijtial's sight, his owner decided to deStroy him. The execution was performed gently in the presence of a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. For two days the lion's careass, with a piece of . parsley in his royal mouth, adorned a butcher's window. / One of the guests who took/part in the feast declared that thp lion's meat w.as as white and tbnder as veal, and that it had a deliqate fiavour of venison. ' \ l
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 7
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155ROAST LION AT BANQUET Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 7
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