Nero, the Circus Lion: His Many Adventures

was doing some shouting of another sort. To tell the truth, he was howling and roaring, just as, sometimes, wh

course, as he rolled over and over on the dried leaves of the jungle. "Wha

y to stand up and look through the jungle

ng animal was. I

wonder what the goat means by staying in one place so long, especially when it must know we lio

r lions, like Nero, could not roar very loudly, but Nero's father, and the

animals. The monkeys, who had been sleeping in the tree-

noise about? It reminds me of the time a monkey named Mappo, who once visited here, had the toothache one night a

ed a small baboon, which

a far country on a trip, and had many wonderful adv

who climbed down a tree to take a look. "The lions are hunt

about. I saw some of them in the jungle to-day, but I kept out of sight. Well, if h

th his big, rough, red tongue, he licked the place where his paw hurt. That is the only way lions have of making well their sore places;

ed the voice of Mr. Lion through the bla

d tried to jump on it. Then I heard some little thu

ere to a tree by a rope, so he would bleat and make you come

knew that a lion would come close to try to catch

l

place where

ge

large

a lion, as he thought. He only made Nero lame in one paw, and as the lion boy rolled away as quickly as he could the man lost sight of him. And

hunter shot Nero, other hunters may shoot at us. We had better hunt somewhere else. Come, we will run away. The jungle is big enough for us to hide fr

e away, for they all roared at once, and the ground fairly

ve to run on three legs, but you have done that before. You did it once when you got a bi

and where the hunters were hidden, and Nero followed. But it was n

e saw that his chum was not keeping up wi

. "And I guess you couldn't

'm sorry you were shot, Nero. I'll stay behind

red Nero, using li

e wounded lion had to go. But soon the others-the big an

roared. "And you too, Switchi

o. "I'll tell them you can't go fast, and that they must wait for us.

did not feel very happy, for his paw hurt him very much. "I'll

e was gone something happened that changed Nero's whole

ll you

ddenly heard a noise in the jungle behind him. He saw some lights flashing and he hear

shot a

ears and listened

They are coming after me! I must run away and hide!

light enough for men to see to shoot. But the lights Nero saw flashin

one hunter, flashing his light. "This must b

longer. Up he sprang, and, running on three legs, and making no noise, off

lf darkness. He knew at once what it was. I

thought the lion boy, "but it wi

ried grass, as far back as he could get. And the hunters, with their gu

nt