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During the Depression of the early 1930s, Free worked with other stunt riders in a carnival, riding Indian veetwins around a Wall of Death containing a bad-tempered lion whose mood wasn't exactly improved by the incessant drone of the engine, rising and falling like a giant mosquito, and the fact that whenever he got it together to take a swipe, his tormentor would already be on the other side of the wooden cylinder.