African Lion and Mr Osborne

Mr Osborne: Itas a June afternoon. The day is warm. The window is open. A fully-grown African lion leaps in. , according to BBC. Perhaps theyad just grown weary of printing variations on a well-worn theme. In the 19th Century, ferocious beasts roamed the British countryside once more, thanks to the lax security of travelling menageries that criss-crossed the nation in the style of incontinent mice, leaking wherever they went. Continue reading the main story Victorian strangeness In the drawing room of a hotel in sedate Llandrindod Wells, Mr TJ Osborne is preparing to head home from a pick-me-up break in the Welsh spa town. In the lively few minutes that follow, Mr Osborne gets a crash-course in lion-taming and later becomes the hero of a pithy write-up in the newspapers. Well, some of them at least. A holidaymaker tackling a lion in Llandrindod may seem to us now - as it must have to Mr Osborne then - a remarkable turn of events, but it doesnat seem to have caught the imagination of many of the news editors of 1889. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.