The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-10-01
From the q Iouis Republican.


as frautically as though they hadn''
had bit in a week. The little fellow,
have to stand out Of the way for thu
big ones, too, for there lie very little
about Bruin. He is purely
selfish. and the bigger he is the more
he seems inclined to assert his super
iority. Consequently the cubs have
to resort to strategy to secure theiI
share. One little black one is very
He will post himself respect
fully at some distance from the larger
once, and will lie down, roll about
and whine most beseechingly to attract
the attention of anyone who happen.
to be supplied with anything eatable
If anything passes his way he is quict
enough to snap it up, and whenever
he can capture q fragment from hi
big room mates he will smack hi.
chops and laugh with as tantalizinl
primaces as can we'll be conceived.
D Occasionally the older ones will punist
his impotence by gentle nip. which
is always rewarded by q most enthusi
astic screech. followed by more
ingenious antics intended to bring
more donations. But
THE CHAMPION BEGGAR
is the elephant. Big as he is he will
take more trouble and 60 through
more mapoeuvres for q smaller piece o1
provisions than any other living thing.
Hold up small piece Of cake as you
approach his domain and be will come
along to meet you. The fence
is very strong, though not very high,
and he can reach a long way outside
it. In fact, If any tempting morsel be
held in his sight about seven or eight
feet outside the fence he will reach
for it as though he had been reared al
his life in a cheap clearinghouse.
And when touches il with the end OF
his prohoscis it is truly astonishing ia
note with what a tender, vet tenacious
grip he fastens to it and what q re.
expeditions and safe road it
travels to the cavern0us recess which
call his mouth. Anyone
who has never looked into that mouth
has something vet to see. 1t cant be
opened the way one opens . horses
mouth to look at his teeth, and indeed
4 casual inspection of the animal with
his trunk jammed down in front
would give the impression that the
cavern was Theoretically sealed. II is
40 trouble at all to get q view Ut it.
however. All one has to do is to ask
Inc animal. He will do anything he
knows for a piece Of cake. Go up
lose to him, hold mp the fragment
md tell him to "open up" and be.
mold! the proboscis rolls upward and
back ward, the animal lifts off the top
IF his head as it were. and the whole
panorama is before you. 1t is yawn-
ng chasm into which a wheel-barrOw
Dad of cakes could be dumped at
,nce.
THE PROVISIONS
To keep those jaws wagging must cost
l fortune. There is q coarse wire net
ing between the bars of the fence, the
meshes being about six inches in
diameter, and there is no better amuse.
ment than to see the beast poke his
proboscis through and pick up bits Of
sweet truck from the ground. Estimate
he length of his proboscis and lay
down q foot beyond what
gems to be its reach. The thing will
stretch out farther and farther till the
,bject it takes in. Then find the ut
most it can stretch and put piece yet
, little farther out. He will still get
t. The lower rail Of the fence is
ome distance above the ground and
here Is no netting below it. When
he elephant finds he can't reach it in
he usual way, he will 60 under the
ence for it. The great mass of meat
lrops upon its knees, gouges its head
n the ground. pushes rs far under the
ence as possible. stretches out the
runk and speedily retires with the
norsel. 1t will take all this trouble
or abit Of cake the size Of q hickory.
nut. Its fondness for such goodies
AN be imagined when it is considered
hat if people were to feed it in this
ray. through the "a hours each day
he amount of sustenance acquired
vould be 80 small that the animal
must inevitably starve to death in q
hort time. 1t is a very cunning old
,eggsr and seems to know what will
est please the visitors. II turned
,ose in the country it would make .
ample tramp.
SINGULAR COMBAT.
A large crowd gathered around the
rairie dogs inclosure yesterday after
Don to watch the progress Of q queer
ght which occurred there. A couple
{ days ago somebody over in Illinois
ent the Fair association q young
,oochuck. Fur want Of q better
lace the little fellow. which is about
wo-thirds grown, was put in with the
rairie dogs. He seemed to be living
cry peacefully with his new neighbors
ntil about halfpast three o'clock
when. woodchuck like he
Undertook to crawl into one of the
oles which the dogs have dug. 1t
appened that the particular animal
hose domicile be had invaded was
bout the biggest in the pen, being q
rye as 4 muskrat, and he immedi-
tely declared war. An old wOod-
1uck would have made short work Of
i'm but this one too young to fight
ell. and moreover. was away from
ONE and friends and was badly
ightened at the crowd, 90 the prairie
X proved fully his match. They |
ught viciously for full half an hour. |
ting and barking away at each
her. The other dogs would al