"Lions?
I should think so!" He replied to this.

"Dangerous, isn't it ?" "Oh, it ain't that.

They're nothing to be afraid of if you know 'em, but they're so hot and smelly when you have to get close to 'em.

Anything I really hate, it's having to get up against a big, hot, hairy, smelly lion." He murmured a sympathetic phrase and extended his search for the lost pin to the side of the pool.

Almost under the scaffold he saw the shine of precious stones and called to her as he picked up the pin, a bar pin splendidly set with diamonds.