St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-15
NECK TIED IN. A KNOT.
THE AWFUL PRE0icANE3T or A CIR
Gus GIRAFFE. s se
a GRANGER REGuILEs HER.
While Reaching for Apples and
I, Oranges She Ties a Knot in
q, Her Ten-Foot Neck--By Very
d Hard, Quick Work Her Life Is
Saved.

Mamie, Sleekest and most beautiful
giraffe ever seen in this country, is the
property of Ringing Bros. She is now
sixteen years of aye, and, notwithstand-
ing the adoring affection layished OH
her by John Garten, her honest old Ger
man keeper and attendant, she is sad,
sad firt. You would not think SO to
look into her gazelle-lIke eyes, which
Jare never litup by the responsive ex-
preston Of love. Indeed, her expression
never changes. You would not suppose
her conscious of mundane things, as
she towers nearly twenty feet above the
ground and nibbles the branches of a
tree that her jealous keeper provides
for her. SO far as looks go, she is
utterly Indifferent. But she Is never
theless tiirt of the first water. She
knows John loves her. and she returns
his affection. But she possesses the
attributes of the Sex. If a "Reub"
lounges in through the main ell
trance of the circus with an orange
or an apple in his hand she is, in
the vernaeular of the circus, next" TO
the movement, and. ii the unsuspecting
"ReuD" still carries the tempting fruit
exposed near the little annex to her
cage in the circus tent, she will ONE
pretty near possessing it. And she nips
1t with such cunning and CELEBRITY that
"Reub," though momentarily nom
pluSed. is nevertheless invariably
pleased. She knows John doesn't like it,
and she is just kittenish enough to en-
joy his discontinue. She does every
thing but laugh, emitting sort of gut
tural ehuckle that causes the froWn of
the keeper to relax into smile.
John and Mamie have been close and
confidential companions for nine years.
He is with her constantly by day, and
at night he sleeps in compartment of
her cage, and so travels. ven one Of the
forty cars of Ringing Brothers circus
train through the country.
At Marshall, Mimi, "Reub'' was
despoiled of bis apple by Mamie two or
three days ago. He smiled, but said
nothing, but lounged through the men
nagerle, and was forgotten. After the
circus performance ended he went to
the candy butcher and laid in stock of
apples and oranges. He hung around
the menagerie tent until half-past 5
O'Clock, when John lifted the flap and
went over to the cook tent for supper.
Carelessly sauntering up to the giraffe
cage, the "Reub" displayed all orange,
which Mamie quickly corralled. Then
he permitted her to steal an apple. This
was repeated three or four times, the
apples alternating with the oranges,
until a prOtuberance arose in the gullet
OF the festive queen of the Saharas
She was still hungry, however. Then
the deep scheme of the calculating
Reub" developed itself. He produced
another apple, a most tempting and
luscious Greening, which he held near
her nose. As she made dive for it
he moved his hand, kee ping just in
advance of her eager lips, and passed
it from the outside through the bars
OF the annex, describing III his course
a route which caused the unrefecting
animal to tie her neck in knot when
he permitted her to swallow-or partly |
sWallow-the apple. And he let her |
have two more. When John Garten !
came hurrying back from supper he |
found Princess Mamie with her neck |
tied III a single knot, and her eyes |
protruding III fear, wonder and sur
prise. If ever giratfe's expression indi- ,
Gated
1.-The granger Adonis has done me upr
this giratfe's expression plainly looked |
the sentiment. Ana there was a guilty
look withal that was comical in the ex-
IRENE. Poor John Garten! His eyes
snapped together, and the tears rolled
down his cheeks. Zach! meme liebe |
Mamie! was. soil ich thun?' he eX-
claimed as he stood spellbound at the
strange spectacle of his dumb sweet
heart with her neck tied in a
hard knot and the muscles swell
ing in her efforts to get the apples
and oranges dislodged. 1t was, indeed,a
strange predicament; something hither- !
to inconceiyable. And yet it was
laughable, too. But honest John Gar
ten saw nothing to laugh at. The
probability OF his only love dying from |
strangulation; victimlzed by an appar-
emily guileless granger to her own I'M
doing, paralyzed the honest German |
with grief. Fortunately, there were
but few people present, and of this |
number there happened to be one, in |
the person of Head Hostler DeIeyan,
who has had world of experience with |
equine stock. He sent Tor a pair Of |
nlppers, to which he attached additional |
handles, nearly two feet long. John |
got upon stepladder, forced Mamie's |
head back and Delevan inserted the |
nippers and removed two apples and an |
orange from point above the knot. |
Then three iron bars were removed |
from the annex, and the two men, by |
main force, showed aud twisted the head |
of the now fairly paralyZed giraffe until |
they succeeded in untying the knot
in her neck. The perspiration rolled in !
streams Off Cartons body. But what
sigh of relief he emitted when the
danger was Overi He Rugged and ]
kissed the animal as one would caress
a beloved sweetheart snatched from the |
jaws of death. He called her by every
endearing name known in the ''amour
de giraffe" litany: stroked her face, her
sides, her limbs, and laughed and cried
in turn.
At this writing she IS doing well: and
there is a Softened expression in her
gaze when she fixes it on her eevoted
keeper, which says as plainly as looks
can say: 81 fiirted with a 'Reub' in
mere girlish thoughtlessness, and
have been taught lesson. | will never