The Mime

One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn

some money as a street performer.



However, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zookeeper grabs him

and drags him into his office.



The zookeeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular

attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly. The keeper fears that

attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress

up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.



The next morning, before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the

gorilla suit and enters the cage. He discovers that it's a great job.

He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws

bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime.



However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he gets bored just

swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more

attention to the lion in the cage next to his.



Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top

of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the

lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd

loves it.



At the end of the day the zookeeper comes and gives the mime a raise

for being such a good attraction as a gorilla.



Well, this goes on for some time. The mime keeps taunting the lion, the

crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible

day when he is dangling over the furious lion, he slips and falls. The

mime is terrified. The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The

mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with

the lion close behind.



Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help, Help me!", but

the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his

back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, "Shut up you

idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"

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