Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-22

make the children inside the booth scream
With fright which would make fathers Of
families outside the booth very anxious to
come iD-because there is large class o.
parents who have a uncomfortable passion
for takiu their children to places where
they will stand chance of being frighten
ed to death.
One day I wbacked this leopard more
than usual, which elissted remopstrance
from tall gentleman in spectacles, who
said {: "My good man, do not beat the poor
Gagged animal. Rather fondle him."
"I'll fondle him with club" ansereo
hitting him another whack.
IL prithy desist," said the gentleman
"staud aside and see the effect of kindness
1 understand the idiosyncracies of these
creaturs better than ye do" With that he
went up to the cage, and thrustin his face
in between the iron bars, he said, sootbiniy,
"Coue hither, pretty creetur" The pretty
creetur come. hithered rather speedily, and
seized the gentleman by the whiskers,
which he tore off about enuff to stuff q
small cushion with.
He said, "You vagabone, I'll have you
indicted for exhibitin dangerous aud i'm
moral animals
I replied, "Gentle sir, there isn't a ami
MAJ here that hasn't beautiful moral, but
YOU mustn't fondle 'em You mustn't med
die with their idiotsyncracies."
The gentleman was dramatic cricket,
and he rote a article for paper, in which
he said my entertainment was decided
failure.
As regards Bears you can teach 'em to
do iuterestin things, but they're unreliable.
I had very large grizzly bear once, who
would dance, and larf, and lay down, and
bow bis head in grief, and give mounful
vale, etsetry. But he often annoyed me
1t will be remembered that on the occasion
of the first battle of Bull Run, it suddenly
occurred to the fed'ral soldiers that they
had business in Washington which ought
not to be neglected, and they all started for
that beautiful and romantic city, maintainln
a rate of speed durin the entire distance
that would have done credit to the celebra-
ted French steed, Gladiator. Very nat.
rally our gov'ment was deeply grieved at
this defeat; and l said to my Bear, shortly
after, as l was givin' exhibition in Ohio
Il said, "Brewin, are you not sorry the
national arms has sustained defeat ?"-
His business was to wall dismal, and bow
his head down, the band "a barrel origin
and a wiolip) playing slow and melancholy
moosic What did the grizzly old cuss do,
however, but commence danciD and larhn
in the most joyous manner. had narrer
escape from being imprisoned for disoyal-
ty | will relate another incident in the
career of this retchid Bear. used to pre-
sent what | called in the bills A Beautiful
living Pictur-showiug the Bears fondness
for his Master; in which I'd lay down on
a piece of carpetiug, and the Bear would
come and lay down beside me, resting his
right paw on my brest, the Band playing
"Home, Sweet Home" very soft and slow.
Altho' say it, it was tuchin thing to see.
I've seen Tax Collectors weep over that
performance.
Well, one day I said, "Ladies and gen,
tlemeu, we will now show you the bears
fouduess for his MASTER" and l went and
laid down. I tho't observed pecooliar
expression into his eyes, as he rolled clum
silly, to'ards me, but didn't dream of the
scene which followed. He laid down and
put his paw on his breast. "Afection of
the bear for his master" repeated. "You
see the monarch of the western wilds in q
subjugated state Fierce as these animals
uatrally are, We now see that they have
hearts, and can love. This bear, the lar
gest in the world, and measurin seventeen
feet round the body, loves ME asa mer-ther
loves her che-id !" But what was my horror
when the grizzly and iufamus bear threw his
other paw under me, and rlz with me to his
feet. Then claspin me in a close embrace
he waltzed up and down the platform in a
frightful manner, l yellin with fear and au-
guish. To make matters wuss, low sour
rilus young man in the audiens hollored
out, "Playfulness of the bear Quick moo
sicw 1 jest escaped with my life The
bear met with violent death the next day,
by beiu in the way when hevily loaded gun
was fred off by one of my men
But you should hear my Essy which l
wrote for the Social Science Meetius 1t
would have had movin effeck on them.
feel that must now conclood.
Very respectfully yours,
APTEMTTS WARD