Nero sat on his hind legs on the table.
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"Oh, yes, I suppose so," said the farmer's wife.
So Nero got something to eat after all. And then, when he had fallen asleep in the woodshed where the farmer locked him, the circus men came to take the tame lion back with them.
"I'm very glad to get Nero again," said his trainer. "I guess he has had enough of running away."