The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-12
A TRUE STORY.

once upon time there were four lit
tie girls and six little boys, and they all
told the truth and tried to be good chill
dren so when their Aunt Lou went in
big ship across the sea, she kept think
ing all the time about these children
and wondering what she should tell
them about in the letter she was going
to write, and at last she found some
thing to tell them. One day she went
to large garden she had to pay four
big pennies to ride there in an omnibus,
and when she got out of the omnibus
she did not know which way to go, for
she was IN large place all full of trees,
and there were great many paths, but
she saw two nice little girls and their
nurse walking along, and she said, Can
you tell me the way to the Geological
Gardens ?" and the little girls said,
1--WE are going that way and we will
show you. SO Aunt Lou and the little
girls walked along until they came to n
funny sort Of gate where there was n
man who said she must pay silver six
pence before she could go through, so
she said goodbye to the little girls, and
gave the man the silver sixpence, and
then went through the funny gate, which
she went through, and then she was in
the beautiful garden.
The first thing she saw on one side
was a whole lot of deer; some had large
horns, but they were all very gentle,
and she pulled handful of nice green
grass, and they licked their tongues
out, and poked their noses through the
large wire-feDce that was round their
houses, for all the deer had beautiful
little houses, and they looked very gentle
and happy.
At the end of that long walk she
turned and came up another that was
full of little ponds, with the same sort
of fences round them they were full of
all sorts of ducks and geese and birds
parrots with bright wings that were talk
ing and making great noise, peacocks
with their big tails all spread out, and
solemn looking cranes with long necks
and long legs, some of them had beauti-
full pink legs and wings, and feathers i'll
their heads, and some pelicans had
mouths as big as grandpa's slip
per, and two of them were fighting, and
it made the children laugh to see them
hop about and flap their wings, and
screech and stretch their big mouths.
All the little children had crumbs in
their pockets, and these two cranes were
fighting about piece of cracker.
Then she went on until she came to a
long house all full of lions, tigers and
leopards. They seemed lazy, sleepy
set, all but one old lion who was walking
up and down his cage, making Il noise
that was loud enough to scare anybody,
and showing his teeth. From there she
went to a place where the sea-lion was
a sort of ashland when man sat in a
chair near the water, the sea-lion came
up and sat in his lap and ate n piece OF
bread that he was holding in his teeth,
and then one of the children held up a
piece of silver money, and he went and
took it in his mouth and gave it to the
man, but the man gave it back to the
child. Then she went to a large house
full of monkeys there was rope hang.
ing down from the wall, and the mon
KEYS would catch hold of it with then
tails and swing and swing until they got
near to another rope, and then they
would Jump and catch that. But the
funniest thing was to see the big mon.
KEYS, and catching the fleas out of the
little monkeys, and eating the fieas, anG
scratching the place where they caught
them. The cage was surrounded by
children who had strawberries, nuts anC
crackers for the monkeys. There was
one greedy fellow that stood in "a corner
and Jumped up and down on his hint
legs before a little girl that had straw
berries. and he would slap the Other
monkeys in the face if they came near
and scream like everything. When tn,
little girl gave him strawberry h,
woud look at it like he thought it wa
too pretty to eat, but he would eat i
and then put his hand out for another
and if she only gave him a cracker h,
would throw it at the other monkeys
but he never would throw strawberry
There was big baboon that snatcheC
n centleman's eyeglasses off, and whel
the keeper went to take them from hin
he hopped to the top of the cage an,
threw them down so they broke tina
made the children laugh, but the MAJ
gave the baboon whipping, and h
screamed and yelled, and all the othe
monkeys hid in corners, rthey though
they would get whipping too. Their
was one little monkey with white fac
and no hair ON it, and ears just like
child. and he seemed sorrowful littl
thing. so she asked little girl to Civ
him a piece of her cake, and he seeme
glad to get it.
Then She went to place full of a
sorts of bears. There were two larg
white bears walking by deep pond
and Que jumped in and turned over. an
the other jumped in after him, and the
PLAYED and jumped about. They ker
coming out, and seeing which coul
lump in first and then one would tr
to keep the other down under the watel
and they would make such splash, tina
the children all clapped their hands an
laughed SO that all the people crowde
up to see what was the fun. Then a
she was walking along, there came tw
large elephants, and as they wake
through the paths they put up thei
great snouts and would peel all the ter