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

little girls and six little boys, and thev
all told the truth and tried to be good
children SO when their Aunt Lou went
IN big ship across the sea, she kept
thinking all the time about these chill
dren and wondering what she should
tell them about in the letter she was
going to write, and at last she found
something TO tell them. One day she
went to a 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 a large place full
Of trees, and there were a grert 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 2" and the little
girls said, I'VE are going that
way and we will show you" SO Aunt
Lou and the little girls walked along
until they came to funny sort of gate
where there was a man who said she
must pay silver sixpence 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 moved around
and made a noise when she went
through, and then she was in the beau
tiful garden.
The first thing she saw on one side
was whole lot of deer; some had large
horns, but they were all very gentle,
and she pulled handful of rice green
grass, and they licked their tongues
out, and poked their noses through
the large wire fence that was round
their houses, for all the deer had beau
tiful little houses, and they locked very
gentle and happy.
At the end of that long walk she
turned and came upon another that
was full OF little ponds, with the same
sort of fences round them; they wele
full of all sorts Of ducks and geese aud
birds; parrots with bright wings that
were talking and making a great noise,
peococks with their big tails all spread
odt, and solemn looking cranes with
long necks and long legs: some of them
had beautiful pink legs and wings, and
feathers III their heads, and some peli.
cans had mouths as big as grandpa's
slipper, 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
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 noise that was loud enough
to scare anybody, and showing his
teeth. From there she went to place
where the sea-lion was--a sort Of fish
and when n man sat III a chair near the
water, the sea-IiOn came up and ate a
piece of bread that he was holding in
his mouth, and then one of the children
held up piece of silver money. and he
went and took 1t in his mouth and gave
it to the man, but he gave it back to
the child. Then she went to a large
house full of monkeys there was
rope hanging down from the wall, and
the monkeys would catch hold
of it with their 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 monkeys catching the heas out of
the little monkeys, and eating the feas
and scratching the place where they
caught them. The cage was surround
ed by children who had strawberries.
nuts and crackers for the monkeys.
There was one greedy fellow thai stood
in a corner aud jumped up and down
on his two hind legs before a little girl
that had strawberries, and he would
slap the OTHER monkeys in the face if
5hey came near, and scream like every
thing. When the little girl gave him a
strawberry he would look at it like he
thought 1T was too pretty to eat, but
he would eat it and then put his hand
| out for another, and if she only gave
HIM cracker he would throw il at the
other monkeys, but he never would
throw q strawberry.
There was big baboon that snatch
ed a gentleman's eyeglasses off, and
when the keeper went to take them
from him he hoped to the top of the
| cage and threw them down so they
| broke that made the children laugh,
but the man gave the baboon II whip
ping, and he screamed and yelled. and
all the other monkeys hid in corners,
for they thought they would get a
whipping too. There was one little
| monkey with white face and no hair
| on it, and ears just like a child, and
| he seemed Il sorrowful little thing. SO
she asked little girl to give him a
piece of her cake, and he seemed glad
to get it.
Then she went to place full of all
sorts of bears. There were two large
white bears walking by a deep pond,
and one jumped in and turned over,
and the other jumped in after him, and
they played and jumped about. They
kept coming out, and seeing which
could jump in first; and then one
| would try to keep the other dowr
under the water, and they would make
such a splash, that the children al
clapped their hands and laughed sc
that all the people crowded up to see
what was the fun. Then, as she was
walking along, there came two large
elephants, and as they walked through
the paths they put up their great
shouts and would peel all the tender
leaves off a branch with a single pull
of the snout, and put them in their big
mouths, and go along chewing just as
happy as they could be, and if chill
dren dropped-a small bit of biscuit o.
candy on the ground they would see il
with their little eyes, and pick it III
with their big shouts. Once lady held
ont biscuit, and the elephant took i