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The animal stood a moment and lashed his tail, when Rounders quickly frizzled his nose before he had time for reflection; then he gave way, retreating to one end. Here Rounders strode toward him with his whip and gave him a cut, returned to the middle of the cage, and stamped his foot as he had seen Brinton do. The animal hesitated.
Besides handling them, you must have a specialty a trick, you know. You've got to get up one yourself or worm it out of somebody else. As for the lion man telling anybody that is something I haven't yet met with. You may take his life, but he won't give up his trick; it's his pride, his pleasure, and his bread and butter." "I want to be a keeper all the same," returned Rounders.
Silas felt himself learning to sing. Meanwhile, he knew that he was learning other things a few more elegancies and vices. He looked upon the "rounders" with admiration and determined to be one. So, after rehearsals were over other occupations held him. He came to be known at the clubs and was quite proud of it, and he grew bolder with the chorus girls, because he was to be a star.
I tell you this as a warning not to go fooling round the beasts that is, if you're coming." The fate of the young man of a too trusting faith in the noble nature of the lion did not turn Rounders from his determination, and the next morning he was a part of the establishment.
After that there was no performance with the lions for over a week, during which Rounders was despondent. He was still occupied with the extraordinary feat of removing meat from under the jaws of a feeding lion. It pursued him night and day, and he told Miss Stubbs that he would never be happy until he found out the secret. At length Brinton overtook the company, having come by railway.
The eleven golden sovereigns in her hand felt too good to be true; and at the bottom of the steps she stopped and counted them with eyes which could hardly believe what they saw: eleven golden sovereigns. She gave them into the care of Mrs. Gibson while, in obedience to the behest of the grand duke, she continued to play rounders.
Sport is sport, and no one loves a stiff game of "fives" or "rounders" more than I, but the spectacle of a young unmarried lady and her escort hanging by their limbs on the Lord's Day from the second or third cross arm of an electric telegraph pole is certainly carrying things a bit too far, in my opinion, even in this age of "golf" and lawn "tennis."
I found that I had quite a FLAIR for the game. I seemed to take to it naturally. By the time our match was finished Simpson's little footwear trouble was over and he was organizing a grand three-legged race. "I think they are all enjoying it," said Dahlia. "They love it," I said; "Thomas is perfectly happy making rounders." "But I meant the children. Don't you think they love it too?
He had been told that the royal Bengal tiger of Asia was the equal in strength, if not the superior, of the African lion, he having been known to smash the head of a bullock by a single blow of his paw; but this Rounders did not believe. He read with some difficulty, moving his lips as he did so, in order to get the matter clearly before his mind.
Brinton cursed and shouted at the brute, the motive of which Rounders quickly understood, another theory being that the lion is sometimes prevented from attacking in this way. This noise seemed rather to contribute to the ire of the beast; besides it was presently drowned in his mighty roar.
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