Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-15

away went Jumbo, stepping SO slow
ly, but going fifteen feet at a step.
Five times / saw him go down the
promenade with his laughing load,
and come back again to the ladder
for new supply, and each time he
looked larger to me than ever. Then
he went back with his keeper to his
house and / came away.
After Jumbo was sold and the pro-
blem of moving him came to be con-
sidered, an effort was made to get
him out of the Gardens to the Mill
wall Docks on foot. He went along
willingly enough, Scott leading him,
until they reached the end of the
Zoo grounds, but before going out
into the road he tried it cautiously
with his feet, and perceiving at once
that it did not feel like the shingle
paths in the ssZoo," he was afraid
and would go no farther.
Then a great box was made, which
stood open at both ends. This was
mounted on strong wheels, and was
so placed in the garden gateway that
when the elephants passed out from
their own garden into the main
grounds they had to walk through it.
The wheels were sunk into the ground
on a track, and the floor of the box
was on level with the ground. Alice
walked through the box back and
forth quite willingly, but for some
days it was impossible to coax Jum-
bo into it.
Scott was asked to try whipping
Jumbo, but he answered that he had
never yet struck his favorite a blow,
and he never should. In all other
respects Jumbo was perfectly obedi-
ent and gentle, but he seemed to
think that the box was trap, and
to know almost as well as everybody
else that if he once went in he might
not come out. 1t was the intention
to let him get used to the box by 60
ing through it, and then it was
thought that when at last it was clos
ed upon him he would not mind so
much about it.
He was also put in chains, in Or
der to accustom him to being fasten-
ed during the voyage. AT first they
were only put on in the morning, but
he made so much fuss and trouble
about having them put on the last
time, it was thought unwise to re-
move them again. They are cased
in leather so as not to fret him in the
least. They are spread in loops all
over the floor of his cell, and men
stood ready at different point to draw
them up around him the moment he
should place his feet within any of
the loops; but the intelligent fellow
managed to avoid them for some
time.
But he grew tired at last, and be-
gan to thrash about with his trunk
and ears, and Scott, who was in his
cell with him, got suddenly pushed
up against the wall by backward
movement of Jumbo's huge body.
In moment more he would have
been crushed to death, but he had
the presence of mind to call kindly
to Jumbo, who understood, turned
instantly and released him. Jumbo
then became quiet, and the chains
were placed.
Kind treatment finally set Jumbo's
suspicious at rest, and he was per-
suaded to walk through the strong
box and back again. When this had
been done number of times the box
was fastened at both ends, and the
poor fellow was prisoner. He was
then, without further delay, shipped
on board the Assyrian Monarch, and
on the 22nd of March started on his
voyage across the Atlantic.
1t is claimed that Jumbo was sold
because he had now become liable to
have the "must," disease peculiar
to most full-grown elephants, in
which they become very dangerous.
Jumbo has had only one attack, and
was we'll behaved during it when let
out of his cell. Scott does not feel
afraid of him, and Mr.. Barnum has
so long had the care of elephants
that we think Jumbo's best friend
need not worry about him.-Ha,pe,'s s
Young People.