Year: 1878

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you can mover go in again without


its trying to bite you. It will re.
member that it whipped you be-
fore. You must never let your
nerve weaken, and take care that
though they may muss your flesh
pretty bad, you don't give them a
chance to crunch your bones. That
may put you at their mercy, 80
keep them from taking hold. They
don't bite until they sink their
CLOVIS in, SO look out to break loose
quick, no matter how deep they
clutch you. AS for the smell Of
blood maddening them, I know


there is popular notion to that
effect, but it is not true. I have


had occasion enough to know, when


it was my blood they smelled.
Lions and tigers raised in captivity
arc more dangerous than those


which arc we'll broken when taken


wild full grown. When the cub
born in q cage grows up he will
become impudent, saucy, aggres-
sivc, and he is too familiar with
men to be easily cowod. But the
wild beast mover forgets when he
has been once whipped, and though
his instinct will still prompt him
to attack, he will have his doubts
about tho results of his gotting
into fight. You may handle a
young lion for years, and it will be
us harmless as a Newfoundland dog,
until suddenly, without any appar.
ent reason, all its ferocity will be
developed.


"When you want to train lions, or
tigers, or leopards, or hyonas, the
preparatory steps in all cases are
the same. You first get them used
to yon from the outside of the cage,
feeding and watering them, speaking
to them and sometimes touching
them through the bars when they
are in such positions that they CAM
not readily get hold Of you. Then
yon SO into the cage to sweep it
out Keep your brom going-never
let them get near enough to you to
smell of you, or they will snatch you
the instant after-and make them
pass you, driving them about with
whip. When you have them thor
oughly familiarized with your pres
once you may begin their education.
Some trainers in old times used to
clip their claws and put muzzles on
them, but [ never did, and never
considered it any use, except, pe,'.-
haps, in the case Of a leopard that
you are training to jump on your
back. Whether you clip their claws
or not, q tiger or lion, especially
the lion, has force enough in his
arm to mash q man down almost as
you would a fly. And it isn't right
for the animal needs his claws. They
are his forks TO hold his meat with
when he cats. AS for the muzzle, he
knows whether he has it on or not,
just as we'll as you do, and the
memory Of it has no influence on
him when it is not on.


''You can't teach wild beats any
great variety Of tricks. You make
them rear up in the corners of the
cage, jump over your whip, through
hoop or balloon, or over you, or
each other, and you sit down on
them, and that about exhausts their
capabilities for learning. To make
them jump you hold stick md
drive them over it with your whip,
holding it low at first and gradually
raising it. If you want them to 20
through a hoop, hold it up, with a
gate set in under it SO they can't go
beneath, and whip them through.
If you want an animal to rear up,
it may be necessary to havo rope
or chain dropped through the roof of


the cagesand either swing about it's
neck or fastened to q collar, and
wien you whip it and order it to
stand up, have q couple of men above
to haul up and make it stand on it's
hind legs. After few times the
ropo will not be necessary. See
my splendid tigresscs, how they
stand up. They were trained that
way. You must always mako item
do the samo thing in tho same place


that is, in the same corner or in
tho center of the cage. If you want
to sit on lion or tiger, get the AMI
nal trained to remain quiet in ono
place while you stroke it gently, at
first with the whip, next with your
hand, and finally you can press on it,
and at last sit down on it's launches,
but mover cease to keep sharp
lookout unon r. for Tho e,l;o.h4o.t