Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-09-08
Facts Concerning Jay Gould.

The other morning while Mr.. Cole. the
proprietor Of the approaching circus and
menagerie of that name. was picking his
teeth on the steps of that excellent circus
| hotel, the Russ House, tall sunburned,
baldheaded man, with pine burrs in his
clothes and stick of sassafras in his mouth,
! approached aud said
| BE you the wild animal man, mister?"
| The proprietor Of the double Mammoth
Mastodon Aggregation" admitted that such
was the fact.
Then" proceeded the man from the
mountains, Il think III get YOU to make
me an offer for large sized California lion
| I've got"
| Good specimen, eh ?" asked the circus
man.
Good Well, should say 80.
/ Measures eleven feet from the tip Of his
nose TO the tip of his tail. Caught himself
when cub. Just four years old to-mor-
| row"
"Hum-good appetite ?"
| appetite Great Scott-appetiie
Well. should smile-that'- Just the point
that's just why I'm parting with Jay
I | call him Jay Gould because he takes every
| thing in. If 1t wasn't for his appetite and
/ the queer little things it makes hm do
| | wouldn't part with Gould for a fortune"
/ Savage, eh p
We'll, no; | don't know as | should call
/ Jay savage, eNactly-sorter nibbIsh, though
/ he may be Has kinder habi, of gnaw-
/ ing up things so TO speak In fact the
neIghbors-l live up in Bladder's Peak
| have gotten to he so flSsy and particular Of
late that can't SO much as unchain g.
/ for little fresh air without their getting
/ grumpey about il :"
There's no pleasing some people said
the hippodromcr.
| II should say not. Now, Tinstance, bout
/ three months after jay got to be a..
| big as boarding house sofa | came home
one dag from a picnic and found he had
I eaten up Aunt Maria, who had been left
at home to mind the house lea.twise she
was nowhere 10 be found and as Jay
4 Gould seemed sorter bulgy-like and kept
coughing up hairpins and false teeth for a
1 day or two, We kinder suspicioned the whole
thing.
Maternal aunt ?" inquired the show man.
thoughtfully
Exactly Nv wife took on dreadfully at
first. and wanted me to shoot Jay right of
hut | told her that he had probably suffered
good deal IT was, and that as most like
/ ly he'd catch rheumatism and things from the
remains, we'd better call il square"
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I ven '''e Al'''ei so' fe'onc''e" ai'Tr
| ing with the children. One morning soon
after that my wlie's mothcr-w hole family
/ lived with me, YOU see-ddn't come down
I to breakfast. As all her false hair was
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another prevented. untu uur day .Asl Svek
actually missed the odd lady herself
looked around iur her couple q days, when
s"in,hn@ p a sudden >prtrr Intruu"nrd
Shcrr She "a. gave Gould about halt
pound uf emrtIc right -SaN. but all Ne could
get "It Of him ~as a pair Of h.gh heeled
shoes aud chest protector. lt~a' too late
too late. We put the shoes and thlng- IN
coffin and had Jay led behind the hearse
to the cemetery. Wanted to have much
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