Jason.
The circus man, who had remained in the hotel, came with a light cage,
drawn by horses, and the lion was easily driven from the henhouse into
the cage and was soon safe behind locks and bars.
"Mrs. Jason caught the lion!" cried the crowd that gathered to watch
what happened.
"Did he bite you?" she was asked.
"Never a bite," she answered smiling.
"What! Poor old Tobyhanna bite?" cried one of the circus men. "Why, he
hasn't but two teeth in his head and we have to feed him on boiled meat.
He's no more dangerous than a tame dog, and when you hit him over the
nose with your broom, lady, you must have hurt his feelin's dreadful."
"Well, I didn't mean to be _rough_," said Mrs. Jason with a smile, "but
it's the first time I ever caught a lion."
"Yes, and you get the reward, too," added the circus man, as he paid the
farmer's wife.
Then he started away with the lion in the cage to ship him back to the
circus. And poor, old, almost toothless Tobyhanna, curled up in the
corner of his cage and ate some bread and milk the farmer's wife gave
him. He was happy he had been caught.
Fred Ward's story was soon told. After running away from home he joined
the medicine show, because it gave him a chance to play the banjo he
liked so well.
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