The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
NUMBER 4.

sullen, but at such times he would solicit me to pet him, and if I re- mained near, he would soon get over his i'll feeling.
 We have travelled many thousands of miles together in the magnificent car built expressly for our use. My sleeping apartment was at one end of the car, and my bed was near Jumbo. Unless I was in it he would not go to sleep, no matter what hour of the night it might be. Sometimes 1 would take short walk around the city after the exhibition was over for the day, and before the cars started. Jumbo was always awake, and waiting for his bit of cake and beer, or whatever I had. He always shared my beer at night. Once 1 forgot to give him his portion, and after I had dropped asleep he put his trunk around me, and lifted me out of my bed. I then recollected the nip of beer I had left in the mug, not enough to wet the old fellows throat, but as soon as he got it he was satisfied.
 "He was mischievous, too, and oftentimes he would wait until I had fallen asleep, and then carefully take of my bedclothes without awakening me. If it was cold weather, would find the quilts crowded into the venti- lator overhead. recollect finding my coat and vest carefully tucked into the grating of the car, out of my reach. l looked for them for half an hour, while Jumbo swunk his trunk like an enormous pendulum, as he always did when expressing delight. Finally he directed my attention to the grating, and at my request gave them back. Many times Jumbo has picked me up and placed me out Of danger of Vari- ous kinds to which he fancied l was exposed, and in several instances he saved my life. When the stampede of elephants took place last year, he caught me in his trunk, and held me prisoner between his fore-feet until the general alarm had subsided.
 "An amusing instance occurred at Penn Yan of Jumbo's jealousy of the attention paid me by visitors to the great show.
 "A young lady from the rural dis tricts took quite fancy to me, and l suppose 1 took more pains than usual that she should know the whole history of Jumbo. She returned several times before the circus performance began in the big tent, and each time brought a bouquet or other small gift. After the exhibition she came again, and Jumbo concluded I was either in great dan ger or else receiving altogether too much attention from the damsel. At any rate, he wound his trunk around me and drew me away from her. I freed myself, and again made myself agreeable, when Jumbo picked me up and placed me on one side, and then gently but firmly pushed the lady away from him as far as his chains would al low.
 "I do not like to review the details of Jumbo's sudden death. He showed his affection for me to the last mo- ment, and it seems that he realized the danger to which I was exposed. He first took care, as he saw the fatal train coming, that I should be saved, and quickly put me out of harms way. Then he as quickly rolled Tom Thumb away from the track, and in so doing lost so much time that the engine was upon him before he could move away. He was a king, and he faced death like a king. The locomotive struck him on the head, fracturing his skull.
 "Jumbo's hide and bones are now in charge of Prof. Ward, proprietor of the great museum at Rochester, N. r., and he is preparing them for Mir. Bar nun hereafter to transport through the country with his show. Eventually the skeleton will rest at the National Mu- scum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, while the stuffed skin will be placed in the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts College, near Boston,"
 Mir. Barnum sends the following short account of Jumbo's introduction to his herd of elephants:
 "The day after Jumbo's arrival at Madison Square Garden we resolved to introduce him to the thirty-five Indian elephants which we had there. Some of us feared the result, but Scott in- sisted that Jumbo was too much of gentleman to misbehave. So we placed our thirty-fve elephants in a row, each being chained one leg to post, and then Scott led Jumbo in. He passed . in front of the string of elephants, look ing at first little surprised, as did all the other elephants when they first dis covered him approaching. But Jumbo and all the other elephants at once looked kindly, and each extended its trunk as Jumbo passed, which he fondly took with his own trunk, giving each elephant kind caress. Mutual affec- ton seemed at once established, and il existed without interruption till the day of his death"