Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-12-14

| q '"' ~ CiaSS VI paIcnkS WHO nave uu-
comfortable passion for takin their children
oPlaces where they will stand chance of
being frightened to death.
One day whacked this leopard more
than usual, which elissited remonstrance
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" 1 anserd
itting him another whack.
Il prithy desist,' said the gen,Imap ::
"stand aside and see the effeck of Kindness,
| understand the idiosyncracies Of these
crceturs better than you do" With that
lie went up to the cage, and thrustin his
lace in between tho iron bars he said,
soothing'y, Come hther, pretty creetur.'
The pretty creetur .hithercd rather
speedily, and seized the gentleman by the
whiskers, which he tore off about enuff to
stuff small cushin with.
lie said, "You vagabone, III have vou
indicted for exhbilin dangerous and i'm.
moral animals"
replied, ''Gentle sir, there isn't a ami
NAL here that hasn't beautiful mara. but
you mustn't fondle 'em. You mustn't med.
'lle with their idiotsyncracies."
Tie gentleman was dramatic cricket,
and he rote article for a paper, in which
be said my entertainment was q decided
failure.
AS regards Bears you can teach 'em to
do interestin things, but they're unreliable.
| had very large grizzly bear once, who
would dance, and larf, and lay down, and
bow his head in grief, and give a mournful
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, maintain
in 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 I sail to my Bear, shortly
after, as I was givin' exhibition in Ohio
i said, "Brewin are you not sorry the
national arms has sustained defeat7 His
business was to wall dismal; and bow his
head down, the band IA barrel origin and
wiolin) playing slow and melancholy moo.
sic. What did the grizzly old cuss do,
however, but commence dancin and larfn
in The most joyous manner. had narrer
escape from being imprisoned lor disloyal-
| ty. I will ralste another incident in the
career Of this retchid Bear. I used to pre>
sent what I called in the bills A Beautiful
living Pictur-sbowing the Bears fondness
for His Master; in Which I'd lay down on
piece of carpetihg, and the Bear would
come an& lay down besides me, resting
| bis right paw on my brest. the Band play
ing Home, Sweet IIome,' very soft and
slow. Altho' I say it, it was tuchin
thing to see. I've seen Tax Collector 8
weep over that performance.
Well, one day said, Ladies and gen
tlemen, we will now show you the bears
fonduess for his MASTER and I went and
! laid down. l 1tho't observed pecoolar
expression into his eyes, as he rolled clum-
silly o'ards me, but didn't dream of the
scene which follerd. lie laid down and put
his paw on my breast. Affection of the
bear for his MASTER repeated. you
see the monarch of the western wilds in a
subjugated state. Fierce as these animals
natrally are, we now tee; that they have
hearts, and can love. This bear, the lar
gest in the world, and measurin seventeen
feet round the body, loves me as a mer-
tber loves her che.ildF But what was my
horror when the grizzly and infamous 5ear
threw his other paw under me, and riz with
me to his feet. Then claspin me in a
cloRe-elnbrece he walzed up and down the
platform in ffighuu! manner, l yellin
With fear and anguish. To make matters
wuss, low scurrilus young man in the
audiens hollored out, "Playful.uess Of the
bear Quick mooslel" I Jest 'soaped with
my life. The bear met with wiolen,
death the next day, by bein in the way
when a hevily loaded gun was fred off by
one Of my men.
But you should hear my Essy which
wrote for the Social Science Msetins.
would have had : mosin effeck on them.
| feel that I must now conciood.
1 have read Earl Btight's speech al
Leeds, aud ! hope we shall now hear from
John Derby. i trus, that not only they
but VIM. E. Stanley and Lord Gladstone
will cling infexibly to, those great fonda
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