The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-28
JACK OF ALL TRADES.
= N1aIIer.OE.Fact Romance.
BY CHARLES READE.
Concluded.

AT SlSnL OF me she uIOppcu ulAS
but two of his ribs were broken,
and he was quite insensible, and
the people rushed out in terror.
We raised the clergyman and car
red him home, and in half an
hour a mob was before the door,
and stones as big as your fists
thrown in at the windows: this
however was stopped by the au-
thorities. But the next day my
lady was arrested and walked off
to the fortress, and there confined.
I demonstrated, expostulated, in
vain. l had now to feed her and
no return from her: ruin stared
me in the face. So / went to law
with the authorities. Law is slow,
and Dick was eating all the time.
Ruin looked nearer still. The
law ate my green and gold ser
wants and horses, and still Dick
renamed IN quod. Then l refus-
to feed her any longer, and her
expense fell upon the town. Her
appetite and their poverty soon
brought matters to a climax.
They held a sort of municipal tri-
bunal, and tried her for an attempt
at homicide. got council to de-
fend her, for l distrusted my own
temper and French.
l can't remember half the fine
things he said, but there was one
piece of common sense L do re-
member. He said: "The animal,
1 believe, is unconscious of her
great strength, and has commit
ted a fatal error rather than a
crime; still, fyou think she IS la
BILE to make such errors, let her
die rather than kill men. But
how are you going to reconcile to
your conscience the inconsistency
plan of furnishing her proprietor,
to rob him OF his subsistence
He has committed no crime, he
has been guilty of no want of eau
ton. If, therefore, you take up
on yourselves to punish the brute
be honest! buy her of the man
first, and then assert your sublime
office,-destroy an animal thai
has offended morality. But city
should be above wronging or rob
bing an Individual" When he sat
down 1 thought my homicide wai
safe, for I knew Geneva could no
afford to buy an elephant without
it was out of a Noah's ark.
But up gets an orator on the
other side and attacked me; &C
cused me of false representations
of calling a demon duck. 'W'
have certain information from
France that this elephant ha
been always wounding and killing
men up and down Europe thes'
twenty years. Mons. Lott kneV
this by universal report, and b.
being an eye witness of more thai
one mans destruction" Her
there was a sensation, / can tel
you. "He has, therefore, forfeite'
all claims to consideration" The
he Numbered out: 'tLet no ma
claim to be wiser than Holy Writ
there we are told that lie is
crime of the very deepest dye
and here we see how for year
falsebood has been murder.
+ Then mind he took just the op
posite line to my defender. Say
he: s'If I hesitate for q moment
it is not for the mans sake, bu
for the brute's; but do not hest
. tate. l could wish SO majestic
: creature might be spared;for OF
: instruction" says he, that s
: wonderful a specimen of the CIR
l ator's skill might still walk tn
!. earth; but reason, and justict
: and humanity say No. There
an animal far smaller, yet te
times more important, for he hs
. a soul; and this, the king of q
;. the animals, is not safe while sh
lives; therefore she ought to di
Weaker far than her is his Ind
vidual strength, he is q thousan
:, times stronger by combinatic
= and science,-therefore she vi
* die"
3 When this internal chatter be
Q shut up, my heart sunk into n
r. shoes. He was a prig, but an I
y oquent one, and he walked in
: Dick and / until we were n
s worth half an hours purchase.
- For all that the council did n
y come to q decision on the spt
and / believe that If Dick had b