A FIGHT WITH A LION.
A Fronch lion-tamer has just narrowly escaped being dovoured by one of his lions, in the presence, of a large and horror-stricken public. At a travelling menagerie at Puy, the lion-tamer Casta" net had entered a cage containing several wild beasts, and had begun to put thorn through their usual exercises, when one of the lions, with an angry growl, suddenly struck Castanet with his paw and knocked him down. A cry of alarm from the spectators seemed to excite the animal, which tore vigorously at the tamer's arm, A life-and-death struggle was then entered into between the tamer and the lion. Castanet, trying to rise to hiß feet, kept his eyes fixed on the lion, which now aought to seize him with his formidable teeth. Fortunately, before it could do so, Castanet succeeded in rising from the ground, and after administeringa few stinging cuts on the lion with his steel whip' he left the cage. It was, however, only just in time to save his life, for he almost immediately fell unconscious on the floor, He was severely wounded in the arm and side, and lost a great deal,of blood. j .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2457, 20 November 1886, Page 2
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197A FIGHT WITH A LION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2457, 20 November 1886, Page 2
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