One day a clown
was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a street
performance. He acted and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he
started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him into his
office. The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the zoo's most popular
gorilla had died suddenly and the keeper was fear that attendance at the zoo
would fall off. So he offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until
the zoo could get another one. The clown accepted this great opportunity.
So the next
morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd
came. He felt that it was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and
made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a clown. He
pretended the gorilla successfully.
However,
eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires. He began to
notice that the people were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage.
Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he decided to make a
spectacular performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a
partition, and dangled from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this made
the lion furious, but the crowd people loved it.
At the end of
the day the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good
attraction. Well, this went on for some time, he kept taunting the lion, the
audience crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible
day happened. When he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped and fell
into the lion cage. The clown was really in big terrible situation. He was
terrified.
Sooner the lion
gathered itself and prepared to pounce. The clown was so scared. He could do nothing
and he began to run round and round the cage with the lion close and closer
behind. Finally, the lion could catch him. The clown started screaming and
yelling, "Help me, help me!", but the lion was quick and pounces. The
clown soon found himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and
suddenly he heard a voice from the lion’s mouth;"Shut up you idiot! Do you
want to get us both fired?".
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