He added, "And yet they were clever men,Louis Philippe, Guizot, Thiers" Louis Bonaparte, taking his cigarette from his lips, interrupted, "If such are clever men, I would rather be an ass" "A hyena in an ass's skin," says History.

Pa tried to quiet the crowd and silence the hyenas by taking an iron bar and mauling them, but the hyenas just backed up against the rear of the cage and howled and sneezed at pa, and dared him to come on.

The cayman of South America is very ferocious, and is popularly styled the hyena of the alligator tribe.

I would take them to the cage, and tell them to just talk soothing to the hyenas through the bars, and when the hyenas began to get tame and act as though it would give them pleasure to be curried off, and laid down and rolled over, and purred like a cat that wanted to be scratched, and acted as though they would eat out of one's hand, the boys might call me, and I would have the cage opened and they could go in and curry them off.

He says he wants me to learn the circus business from the ground up, from the currying of the hyenas with a currycomb and brush, to going up into the roof of the tent on the trapeze and falling into the net, while the audience faints with excitement.

] Night passed with no alarm, quietly save for the yelping and quarreling of the jackals and hyenas at work beyond the dunes.

"Yes," said Theodore, and his voice sounded as if it came from a great distance and through cotton-wool, "I knew that you would be after that bracelet like a famished hyena after a bone, so I tied it securely inside the pocket of the blouse I was wearing, and left this with Legros, the landlord of the Trois Tigres.