"Seriously Incommoded"
The lurid story of the escape during the floods in France last March of a member of lions from a Menagirie is now heavily discounted, judging from the following lively message from the Paris correspondent of the "The animal which, successively disguised as two lions, a tiger, and a wolf, Ras" been roaming. the countryside of Agen since its escape, from a. circus Guring the recent foods, has now be-ome ya. hyena until further notice. Late last night, two skilled. big" ame hunters shot it by the light of lanterns eMolled down a rocky rocky slope and obligingly "lay" still" until" proper dentined, Lut then apparently. cor sidered that it had done enough, as jgns of it were found when the two men reached the spot. where it bad een. "If the various people who, have hed. shots at it ie. Believed, the beast must now be seriously incommod fed bf the amount of lead in its body. as if they had been at Cannes or Long Island. After the spectators had recovered from the shock, the ie words "Wimbledon tradition" were whispered. All passed off quietly. Stockings were donned and the Executive, with their morale completely restored, refreshed then selves by issuing the necessary torial ukase to all benighted foreigners. This little scene, readily worked out from the reticent cables, would surely be re-enacted were tt fluttering immodesty of "Punch's"" nightmare to threaten the chaste serenity of the Centre Court, Trade Unions and the Empire The further development of the imperial the inner councils. of the Trade Unions of Great Bi tain is now indicated by the General Council's definite endorsement
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