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Richard Coeur de Lion is said to have been shipwrecked on the island when returning from the Holy Land, and to have erected a monastery there in gratitude for being saved...
...sake of souvenirs; the hammers of Yankee vandals have chipped corners from every unguarded work of art from the Sphinx to the Coliseum; and probably some ingenious progenitor is responsible for the present condition of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and Venus de Milo. Innumerable replicas have saved the Lion of Lueerne, and in the Lincoln Memorial is a gentleman who follows every visitor around at a polite distance to preserve the gleaming integrity of the marble columns...
Battling Siki: "I was obliged to postpone my match with the British middleweight Moore because my arm was bitten by a lion I was trying to tame...
Battling Siki: " In Paris, I walked into Maxim's for dinner, leading a lion on a leash. Exeunt omnes! Later the diners got courage enough to return and buy me champagne. Still later those of them who were most jovial patted my lion...
America is proud of her trades; the steeple-jack writes for the Sunday supplements, the lion tamer has his picture upon every back fence in town. But in India one may follow the weirdest of trades and yet remain in the obscurity which surrounds an office clerk. It is a land of plenty for the interview-seeker: -and the interviews can be written in this country...