We Are Both reduced to Poverty
One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and aftempts to earn some money as a street performer. Unfortunately, as soom as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper grabs him and drogs him into his office.
The zookeeper explains to the mime that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorlla 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.
Next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He discovers that it’s a great job. He can sleep if he wants, play and amuse people. He can sleep if he wants, play and amuse people. He draws biggerfcorwds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging on tires. He notices that people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the aftention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crowls across a partition, and dangles on the top of the lion’s cage. Pf course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.
At the end of the day the zookeeper comes and gives mime a raise for being such a good afttaction. 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 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 he begins to run round and round the vcage 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?”
同是天涯沦落人
一天，一个失业的演小丑的人来到动物园，想作为一个街头艺人，挣一些钱。不幸的是，他刚把人们吸引到身边，动物园看守人就抓住他，们把他拖到了办公室。动物园看守人对小丑解释道：动物园中最受人也是最吸引人的动物——一只大猩猩突然死了，他拍到动物园的人数会因此而减少，所以愿提供给小丑一份工作，由小丑装扮成大猩猩，一直到他们能弄来另一只大猩猩为止。小丑接受了这份工作。
次日，在人们到动手园之前，小丑披上了大猩猩的皮，进了笼子。他发现这个工作相当不错。想睡觉就可以睡，还可以玩耍和取悦观众。比以前做小丑吸引了更多的观众。然而，人们最终对他失去了兴趣，而他也厌倦了总是在轮胎上打秋千。他发现旁边笼子里的狮子吸引了更多人的注意。由于不愿失去观众对自己的注意，他爬到笼子顶上，爬过一个隔板，倒挂着，在狮子笼顶上摆来摆去。当然，这使得狮子十分生气，但人们喜爱这种表演。
这一天结束后，动物园看守人给小丑加了薪，因为他的表演把人们深深地吸引住了。此后，小丑不断地挑逗狮子，来观看的人越来越多，小丑的薪水也一直有所增加。这种情况持续了一段时间。一天可怕的事情发生了。当小丑这天又一次倒挂着，在气急败坏的儿子媒的头顶上晃来晃去时，突然一滑，掉进了狮子笼子里。小丑十分害怕。狮子憋足了劲儿，准备向小丑扑去。小丑害怕极了，在乱子里绕圈跑着，狮子紧紧地在他后边追着。终于，小丑开始大叫起来：“救命，救命啊”可是狮子动作敏捷地一下将他扑倒在地。小丑发现自己平躺在地上，望着上边生气的狮子。狮子说：“闭嘴，你这傻瓜！你想让我们俩都被炒鱿鱼吗？”
