The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01
A Specimen California Story.

PARTING WITH THE FAMILY PET.
The other morning. says the San Francisco
Post while the proprietor of the approaching
circus and menagerie was picking his teeth in
front of the Russ House tall. sunburned
bald@headed man with pine burs in his clothes
and Il stick of sassafras in his mouth, approach
ed and said, ''Be you the wild-animal man. mis-
terE The proprietor of the circus admitted
that such was the fact. Then proceeded the
man from the mountains. II think I'll get YOU
TO make me an offer for Il large-sized California
lion Eve got" Good specimen, eh:" asked the
circus man. Good. Well. | should say so.
Measures eleven feet from the tip of his nose TO
the tip of his tail Caught him myself when a
cub. Just four years old tomorrow" Hum
good appetizer "Appetite : Great Scott =
appetite: Well, should smile: that's Just the
why Pm parting with JAY call him Jay Gould
because he takes everything in. If it wasn't for
his appetite, and the queer little things it makes
him 40, wouldn't part with Gould for a for
tune. Savage, eh:" swell, no, | don't know
As should call Jay savage eXactly-sorter nib
blish though ne may be. Has a kinder habit of
gnaWmg up things, so to speak. In fact the
neighbors-I live in Bladder's Peak-have got
to be so fUssy and particular of late that | cant
as much as unchain j. G. for a little fresh air
without their getting grumpy about it. "There's
no pleasing some people, said the hppodromer.
Il should say not. Now, for instance, about
three months after Jay got to be as big as a
b0ardlng-house sofa. came home one day from
a picnic and found he had eaten up Aunt Maria
who had been left at home to mind the house
lcastMlse she was nowhere tC be found, and as
jay Gould seemed sort of bulgy-like, and kept
nr IVA Ne iindar s,,sninnn"d ~ q & ,'|
N,tnrn,l ami ), inn,,iral tbn Shnw,i5,
thoughttully. Exactly My wife took on
dreadfully for day or two, and wanted me to
shoot Jay right off. But as told her that most
likely br,d ratcbeI thn rheu,n,tis,, ami th;,ns
from the romoinS ,yn.d he ttnr c.lI If snnara :,
And lid sbn >" ..Nnli she lindar ,o+ ra,.n,
cilnd after , while esnnriaIly as IN sacnal
fond Of nlayino win thn chijtlrnn Gne ,nnrn.
mo soon after tbot INV wifa.s n,o+J,nr ubaso
family lived with mo vo1, snnNdidn,t nomn
down to breakfast AsaIl her False hair y1aS
hanpinp over a chair h.r, ond G.nnId rravieJ
out from undpr a he'd Iirkinr his rhons and bis
tongue \ GOOD deal coatedEmnthrr was
olw1ys takino rhinos for thn Ivnr cn,nrIaint -
wo saw at once thnf # ~ ,nntbet ,.iit5tin,, ~
Providence and thar tbn bnn,,v hand Of atHic.
tion VA again unon ns. WcU ,s ynll mav I'm
nose ihr nj,i i,i,iv-Ih,,-s NV n::ife ,,rannntd
around a GOOD deal then ana oot d6wn tbn
brecch-Ioader right AWAY. Rut inst then arriv-
ed \ cold medal fron, tbe ! !, q 4 Soriot,.
awarded on account of NV forhe.ranco in ~
Amt Maria husiness and 50 | tot hnr cninnd
down after - while" +" ..paciticd 6pr oh .. w.
| manared tn arranoe y rrnrinyn for Jav some
how You SEQ 7 WI. al,yl,l fond a+ mnts ma
tendpr-hearted. and alI that you understanG /
arrnpd that the moor animal didn't knoyy hr
M d0in@ wron~i imprcifui ,,,on i ai,,nIl ,,,a,,-
ciful TO his beasts. etc. That smootheJ thnas
over for another month , What hannrned
them" ..Well. one DIV sent Johnnif ou,
Youngest son, down TO the store for some suoar
and he took Gould aIona far romnanv NV
whether if was hcranse ,Jay was fpnd Of .n@ar
or moi don't know hut hc c,mn home oInnp
and soon we noticed a necnliar Kind Of buIae on
bis ribs. abont ns bio as Johnnie, and We con-
cludcd that the dread archer had marked an-
other Ski,lmore-mv name i SkiImore-for liz
own, The whole family took on like mad md
Mrs Ski,morr was ahmIIt to Shove thr nnyy,l4.
kpe under .Tay (;ould and tourh if off herself
When pointrd out that if wo,1l,ln,t 10 to dnsr.
crate our otfsprino', tomh in that ,yny So inst
Md thp hurial seryice rpad AVN tLo lion mi
tied a crane ronnd his neck for thirty days
How docs that strike yon.', Aftnr tL,t VAN
kent the animal rhaincfI..: ..WpII no. 1he foct
Il | spt oIt to ort . rh.in >evar.I timns INT nnn
tbin,, u,l .uot I,, ,,o,.,,,rol MN , I,,. H. :