St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-10-15
POOLING An ELEPHANT.

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,1hete = I ksJ keepes.it III Central
Park menaeerie who = too modest 10
n tell his nans tox pahlicAtion. He il IN
old circus man, and takes more pleasure
Lin 11kt6g % t61. eflends, tee Nm and
the elephant. Han the bipeds of the
genns homo &c ETwTE
tbs stofys ...I' w. With i6s3M6snum
show when the famous baby elephant
Lras born in PhiladelphiA I suppose
you know she wss the Arst baby els-
phant horn In captivity. whether the
fact that Il came into the world In
eivilised country accounts for II q not,
don't know. but its fact that she
was the eutest and smaxtest pachyderm
that was evsr born aaywherA.
''She wasn't . week old before ahe BE-
came the pet of the show. The boys
got 70 feeding her everything untn We
had TO put . guard o. her to Prevent
her constitution from being ruined
She and her mother wero oxhibibid ON
. platform. surrounded By . net sbout
two feet high and at the tnp of the herd.
About forty feet from their plstfoemwas
the lemonads booth, where stood The
pink decoetion n long rows Of 1shoon-
era ~ p ..l,-. f.s
'.Now, the baby had taken > great
fancy to pink lemonade. and aAe would
stand for hours watching the lemonade
men with IN eager and longing gaze.
When the boys were mixing thsstn2 in
the morning abe would polk her trunk
toward them In . bcseeching way that
sometimes met with . respooGo and
someti,nes didn"I rs....,1..s..-
1T was st Scranton. Pa. ,whsse The
boys put mp job on the 6sby.' Tho
circus performances had just begun. and
the menagerie tent Wa deserted. The
baby WAS munehing her last peanut
and was looking downcast .Shs was
on the OF side Of her mother from the
lemonade stand when the plot for hia
downfall was hatchsd TAs boys sattled
the lemonade cana until they saw that
she va. eagerly watching them from
under her pouderous nothsPs belly.
Then they carefully and ostentstiously
placed huge schooner Of pink lemo9-
ade ON The tshls. rolled IN elephant
drinking tub TO tAe side Of tie table.
and then beat retreat behind ~ ean.
~ Aapa. whsrs they could - without
being seen. The baby waited until shs
thought tho coast Was clear, and then
csutiously advaneed - The sids Of The
net toward the lemonaAo stand. She
walked - though trsading On ezra
She shifted around with her trunk 70
pee whether The coast was clear.
md then singsrly hftsd one foot
over the net and then another,
and then bumped hersslf and brought
both hind feet over together. She
'neaked down the gang-plank, tiptoed
,vsr 70 tie stand, momted Tie tub. and
poked her trunk into the anhoonsa
She sucked up shout half Of tie pink
iquid end then d iseovered that The
Ila0 was too high. and the lssnonads
IN bask into the glass before shs could
'levato her trunk and secure L. She
Red again and again and failed every
ima. Thea she became Wild and stamp.
d her feet In pettish b raga
The boys couldn't hold In any longer
nd broke out IN . roor Of l1nGhter.
he baby realised the trick end 1adea
Nd dash for the platform. She tore
Trough the netting. and when - was
ASe behind her mother shs trunpeted
er anger and dis9ust Il was . low.
own trick. but the baby never attempt
TO steal anything after and even de.
lined pink lemonade. IN Y. BAanRAaH