Even a little girl like you, Aravis, must see that it would be quite absurd to suppose he is a real lion.
And they can manage feats real lions would find very tricky.
The breath should pass over the back of your throat so that you let out a real lion's roar.
No one who had ever seen a real lion would have been taken in for a moment.
He makes fun of those who don't think we'd be able to tell the difference between a real or fake lion.
"Don't you know that real lions, the four-legged African kind, like their meat a bit ripe?"
And if there are any real lions about, we want to go away from them, not towards them.
After all, real lions and tigers had been successfully trained to be docile.
Wouldn't you like to see a real lion, or an elephant, or something?
"On the train this morning, you said you'd like to see a real lion."