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Learn more- "Shoeing mules is all you're fit for, so get busy." So spoke Bud's father, the village blacksmith, as his son was treating him to the story of his talents as an animal trainer. "Well, I'll show you some day," muttered Bud, and just that minute Lilly, his sweetheart, rushed up with a circus ad, looking for a girl to ride bareback and a man to learn lion taming. It looked like Providence, and Bud dropped his work at once. Bud and Lilly are employed. Bud with the understanding that he is to start taming the young lions first and thus get used to them. But the men around the arena make fun of Lilly in her riding outfit, and the horse leaves her in the ring hanging on the end of a pole. She soon loses much of her ardor for her new profession. Bud also has his troubles, for when he starts training some cubs, the mother lion gets away and comes after him and he climbs wildly up the cage wall. Then Al, the trainer, comes to his rescue and chases the lions away, but just for fun, lets them out again and they run after Bud, pursuing him until he has climbed over a fence. Meanwhile, Bringley has dropped a plug of tobacco near Charlie, the elephant, who eats the plug. Then, infuriated with such treatment, Charlie pulls his chain loose, and makes his way to the office where Lilly is just telling Bringley that she doesn't want to ride horses any more. Charlie knocks the building over; Lilly and Bringley are lost in the wreckage. Lilly finally meets Bud outside the arena, and together they return to the blacksmith shop. "I'll train mules, pop," says Hud, pulling on his leather apron.
Moving Picture World, September 8, 1917
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