Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-21

Why. look here he continued. going
| 10 TO a splendid Royal Bengal tiger
which greeted him with a most eNtrAva-
CANT affection MS he threw his arms
round his neck and drew his head down
on level with his own. you couldn {
get more anectlonatc bcast thnn this
is am sure On this particular MORN
ing the auimnls seemed TO be- q little
Eighty, which Kari IingcnhOrk cxphiiu-
ed 70 me was owing TO the fact that The
young animals were SO close by. aud tlie
old Ones wanted TO play with them,
Next one Of the bears was led forth
10 walk on the ti"ht rope the tight rope
being long, narrow plank. Very clry-
erly It balanced itself ON its hind legs
end walked, first forward aud then
backward. with wonderful skill and
ease. The trimmer walked behind him,
encouraging hin now and again with
the worls, ''Steady. John. steady.
treating him. indeed, exactly as he
would treat hoy at school In the
middle Of his performance loud suurl-
Ing and gruwliug was suddenly heard,
tiger and a leopard had begun
qnurrrlling. lnd. as the leopard had
been behaving very badly the whole
morning and distrncting the attention OF
the school. lie was sent back to his den
Ia Disgrace. Meanwhile the bear retired
to Ills pedestal and sat down upon II
with q graceful and self-satisfed air.
'ihat bear very much pleased the
emperor Of Austria and the king of Ba-
yaria when they came here some yeuTs
ago, said Mr.. Hlagcnbeck. and then he
took a beautiful silver cigar case out
of his pocket from which lac offered me
a very fine weed. The cigar case he
told me, had been given him on that
memorable occasion by the king Of Ba-
varin himself
Then q see-saw was constructed In
III" middle Of the circus. upon one end
OF which stood u lion and upon the other
end tiger a bear standing In the
middle preserved the peace between
them Two leopards stood ON guard on
either side, aud then the bear set the
sce-shw In motion by walking alternately
from one side To the other
Then took place q curious aud ANUS
ing performance. -Four lions and tigers
were arranged IN row at an equal dis
tnnce from ench other. Some Of the
aud one after another they gaily started
. game Of leap frog with the wild bcnsts,
who seemed to enjoy it to the full as
much "a they did. After they had fin
shed their performance some enormous
double ladders were brought in The
great polar bear was persuaded To take
his place at the very top; next to him ON
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