Napoleon and Samantha

Napoleon lives with his grandfather. When he and his best friend, Samantha, meet an aging circus clown who wants to return to Europe, they offer to take his pet lion, Major. When Napoleon's grandfather senses that he's dying, he tells him, and after he dies, Napoleon hires a young man named Danny to help him bury him, and Danny tells him that he can come stay with him in his mountain cabin if he ever needs a refuge. Before he died, Napoleon's grandfather had sent a letter to his uncle asking him to look after him, but when it's sent back, Napoleon gets Samantha and they take Major through the mountains to stay with Danny.