25 MARCH 1960, Page 30

An Adventure With a Lady

As I watched, the animals that lived in her shoulders broke from their cages.

They prowled in the room with its ivory carvings. They were lions!

They roared, and I thought that I would be eaten. Well, I was ready, but she shrugged her shoulders and the mild lions returned to their cages.

This heroine, this thicket of lions smiled between ivory ear-rings. DONALD RAIL

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