The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-09-27

down, and he put car on each OF
them, and had little pair of steps,
and he filed the cars with children.
and took them riding through the
gardens, and when he thought
they had gone far enough, he
would make them kneel down, and
those children would come down the
steps and others would go up. Then
she went little further and she met a
man with two camels following him.
and they had children on their backs
too; then she met two more elephants
and two more camels, and all the chill
dren looked so happy, and in every
direction they were feeding the ami
mails. She saw foxes, and squirrels,
and rabbits, guinea pigs, and eagles,
and owls, and wild cats, and snakes,
and kangaroos- they were so
funny they were shaped like a rat,
only as large as big goat; they had
big hind legs and little front legs, and
they did not walk, but just jumped
about, till they made her laugh, they
looked SO funny. They poked their
noses through the cages too, TO beg for
something to eat.
Then she went to see the mama and
the papa and the baby hippotamus;
the papa was In bis house, and he was
as big as the piano and his mouth was
as large as the stool, and he had it
stretched wide open to catch bits of
crackers some boys were throwing
him; if he caught them he seemed very
glad, and would chew little specks; it
looked SO funnyto see this great mouth
close on bit no larger than your
thumb he was too stupid to catch any
but those that fell into this great open
mouth. The mama was as big as the
papa, and the baby was about as large
as Herndon, George and Tom Clay
tied IN bundle all together
he and his mama were taking
bath and swimming around in the
pond; they would stay under the water
long time and then come out and
walk round and show their ugly selves
until their hides got dry, and then into
the water they would tumble again.
Then she saw the graceful and pretty
giratfes; their place was under fine
trees, but they had large iron cages all
round the trees to keep the giraffes from
peeling the bark off. They had eaten
all the leaves and branches they could
reach, and she thought they were tall
enough to stand on the pavement and
poke their heads into George Nicoll's
nursery. There were striped ze-
bras and ostriches and rhinocerosses.
| saw two of them with their tough
hides and turned up noses,
lying on the floor asleep, and one
in his pond that looked just as ugly
and lazy as he could, he was all under
the water except his nose, and the
hump on his back was sticking out.
She thought the giraffes and pink
cranes were the prettlest, and the hop
ping kangaroOs were the funniest. And
there was the laughing hyena 1t
laughs like a man, only as loud as a
horse; it looks like wolf, and is larger
and lOng-haired like a bear. There
was place all full of fish, shrimps,
crabs, oysters, tad-poles, terrapins and
snails; then another place was full of
little alligators. And this is what
Aunt Lou thought. If Herndon
were here he would like to ride
the elephant if Nan were
here she would like to feed the cranes;
if Lucy were here she would like to
ride the nice little quiet donkeys with
their nice little side-saddles if Nell
were here she would love to give some
nuts to the pretty squirrels, and see
how nicely they would eat them if
May were here she could give a cab
bage leaf to the pretty little guinea
pigs and see them nlbble it up; If Tom
Clay We're here he would drive IN tine
goat carriages and take his sweetheart
with him ; If Nick were here [ know he
would like to have one of those pretty
parrots with the long red tails, and
that stood i'll the rings that were tied
with string to the trees;
if my little Judge were here he
should ride on a little gray donkey
by Lucy's side; L saw the very fellow
that would suit him, and he would let
him whip him too, and not kick up his
heels at all. If nay chap were here, |
couldn't let him do anything, but Just
talk to me, and look at the fishes; and
if Robby were here everybody would
look at him, and say, "Whose child is
that 2" and [ would show him the
monkeys. And now, Aunt Lou sends
love to all, and hopes when she comes
home she will find them all wei and
happy children, and that all will re-
member what she has told them about
the animals in the famous London
gardens.
LONDON, June 80, 1872.