Animals: Blood Lust

Dumb, quivering agony for the horse— dumb, quivering frustration for the lion. Such is the price of the circus act in which a lion leaps from its perch to a horse's back, rides around the ring. A lion dearly loves warm horseflesh and of all living creatures a horse most fears a lion.

As it had for 16 years, a horse in Captain Schultz's Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain...

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