Rain had been beating down on the country around Thousand Oaks, Calif, for three days. At Louis Goebel's Wild Animal Farm it turned the grounds to hay-littered mud, dripped from red circus wagons, blew coldly through a rusty cage in which two shaggy lions paced and turned. The lions were not exercised while the rain fellthey were mean cats, and overage (4½ years old) for training, and the bad weather made them sullen and difficult.
As soon as there was a break in the storm, their owner, May Kovar Schafer, sloshed out to...
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