Unfortunately, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him
and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the
zoos 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
as 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
crowd comes. He discovers that its 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 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 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 lions cage.
Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.

At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being
such a good attraction. 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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