human
Doesn't love me, does he?
gpt
What's the matter with him?
human
Why, nothing; only he's a wild lion--never been tamed, you know; and I took him in the ring one day. He hasn't forgotten it--have you old boy? Hah!
gpt
Yes, went on Bostock,
human
Tell you how I came to take this wild lion into the ring. I had a press-agent who had been announcing out West what a wonder I was with wild beasts, and how I wasn't afraid of anything on legs, and so on. That was all very well while I was in Baltimore; but when I joined my other show after the fire, of course I had to live up to my reputation. And when they got up a traveling men's benefit out in Indianapolis and asked me to go into the ring with Young Wallace, why, there wasn't anything to do but go in. It wasn't quite so funny, though, as it seemed, for I might as well have taken a lion fresh from the wilds of Africa.