A Mime in a Zoo

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One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zookeeper explain to the mime that the zoo`s most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts. So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovered that it`s a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play an make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds that he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of 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 waiting to lose his attention of his audience, he climbs on the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top on the lion`s cage. Of course, this make the lion furious, but the crowls loves it. At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and give the mime a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crows grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furios lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounch. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help, help me! ", but the lion it`s quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up the angry lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us bit fired? "