Aliki, now called Alice by her English caretakers at Lady Herries's estate, will work onstage soon.

WSJ: Hee Haw! Donkeys Get Last Laugh As One Greek Tragedy Ends Happily

At Lady Herries's estate, Christoforos and Fotis live with seven other donkeys saved from starvation or the slaughterhouse.

WSJ: Hee Haw! Donkeys Get Last Laugh As One Greek Tragedy Ends Happily

Donkeys "have no one to champion them, " said Ms. Burness, Lady Herries's secretary, who helps care for the animals.

WSJ: Hee Haw! Donkeys Get Last Laugh As One Greek Tragedy Ends Happily

Today, they live on an 11, 000-acre estate called Angmering Park, owned by Anne Herries, the daughter of a late Duke of Norfolk.

WSJ: Hee Haw! Donkeys Get Last Laugh As One Greek Tragedy Ends Happily

A. in philosophy who was the son of the butler to Lord Herries, and Albert Wagner, the "t" not sounded, a shy, smiling man from the Province of Lyons in France whose seniority in the Society of Jesus would cause him to be the first in their second-year class to be ordained a priest.

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