LION CUB IN CAR
FOUND ASLEEP BY OWNER When Mr. E. H. M. Chrystal, who recently broke the light car record from Durban to Johannesburg in a Baby Austin, went to look at his car one morning at the garage he found a live lion cub curled up in the driver's seat, says “The Cape Times,” Johanesburg correspondent. How did the cub get there? No one at the garage knew the history of the cub. It apparently arrived in the night with a Buick car and was left tied to a bench in the garage. The owner of the car was not known and had not been seen at the garage this morning. The cub was offered a bowl of milk and a hunk of raw meat, but it seemed to understand the milk better than the tough red stuff. All the married members of the staff were casting covetous eyes on the wonderful pet for the children.
Much of the mystery of the cub's past was cleared up when a native connected "with the Buick car turned up at the garage. He disclosed that his master, Mr. Reggie Holmes, of Bloemfontein, had encountered five lions while motoring in Rhodesia and had shot one lioness and had captured the cub.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 11
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210LION CUB IN CAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 11
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