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SHOWMAN
bill with the cats and started out to see what would happen.
They were German lions— the first Hagenbeck lions, I think, to come to this country. A German fellow named Darling had been sent over to exhibit them. There was also a dog in the act, a Great Dane who was the mainspring of the outfit. If Darling got into difficulties with the cats, the dog would jump in front of him and snarl them into submission. He could have licked them all at one time if necessary. And when Darling got too tight to get home, the dog would fetch him as efficiently as if he'd been a patrol-wagon on four legs; there was one occasion when Darling got into a row with some toughs in a saloon and the dog cleaned out the whole joint in about thirty seconds flat.
That Brooklyn audience really didn't need to get so scared when they saw the lion barely miss leaping the spiked barrier into the orchestra. Those cats were so harmless that once when Darling was too drunk to go on, I volunteered to go into the cage and put them through their paces myself. But Darling was not too drunk to put a stop to that, claiming angrily that that would disillusion the public about his daring. Why, the German boy he had hired to clean the the cages hadn't been on the job ten days when he was waltzing right in among the cats and sweeping them round the cage along with the dirt as if they'd been so many sheep!
The boy distinguished himself even more signally
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