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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 6 (September 1939)

About Daniel and Lion-el

About Daniel and Lion-el.

And then there are those people who prefer to gamble with their livelihood by pitting their aptitude against a lion's appetite. Fancy waking each morning with the thought: “I wonder how Leo's liver is this morning?” It is a query which would keep the average person in bed for the rest of his life.

It is bad enough to wonder how the boss's dyspepsia is reacting on his predatory instincts each morning. But to spend your life as a potential lion's lunch is too much like Daniel arriving at his place of business.

When you run up against a man interested in white mice it is ten to one that he is a lion-tamer who has lost his nerve.