The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-04
Saved by the Giraffe.

"A man never can tell when his luck
is going to strike him. or in what shape
it is going to strike him." said the old
circus man, according TO the New York
sun. Here we'd been going along
through The country to poor business for a
week. not making money enough TO buy
nay Iof me ANIMALS when one day some
thing happened that filled the whole coun-
I I with talk about us, and brought
room for. and il was the Simplest ljtfle
Ho-dccount tning you ever heard of, which
JUST SHOWS too, how generously the peo-
pc respond II you happen to catch their
There was 2 small boy up a tree along
| sloe ms father house on a country road
a arg a 6ird's nest. He crept out further
vas on which extended well over the
4ouSe- You We often seen such trees, no
uouDl. Just as he was reaching out for
Ihe nest, when he'd finally got within
reach OF it, his grip slipped and away he
went, not on the roof or down on the
ground, but, by snakesi down the Chin
hey' exactly over which he happened to be
at the time he lost his hold. There was a
iHttiug or SCOT on the pipe of the stove
IN the kitchen below that told the farm
ers wife and the hired girl that there
was something the matter in the Chin
ney, ana the moaning that came from
there presently tod them what 1t was.
ana the farmer himself was away in a
distant field, and there didn't seem to be
a ladder in the county.
At the time when the boy was creep
iHS IuICher ana further out on the limb
OF the tree. there was coming along the
road, bound for the town where it was
going to show next, a circus. That was
our circus, and it so happened that the
head of the column reached the farm
house just as the farmers wife and the
hlred girl rushed out into the road. The
old man was riding at the head of the
column, as he always did. He rode up
instantly, of course, to the front of the
mouse, and asked the lady what was the
matter, and she told him as well as she
could i'm her excitement.
Our old man was a man that knew an
opportunity when he saw it. which is a
great gift.
" Madam he said in his most polite
manner. give yourself no further uneasi-
ness. Wen get the youngster out with
out the slightest injury and wheeling
his horse, he says TO me:
BIl, bring up the giraffe
Ihat was when we had the great eigh-
teencfoot giraffe, and on the road the
gIratfe cage was always about the middle
OF the column. We hurried back, and got
the giraffe out and up to the front as soon
as We could, and alongside the extension
mat the kitchen was in. There wasn't the
sllghtest danger to the boy. 1t was the
middle of summer, and they were burn
ing wood in the stove, and the middle of
the morning, and the fire was out but of
fuL all the same
well, we got the giraffe alongside the
house, and the old man" talked to him,
and I'm blessed if he didn't seem to I'M
derstand, and he crooks his long neck over
the top of the chimney and dips down in
to it, and in a minute he raises his head
again out of the chimney, lifting the boy
with him, his teeth gripping in the boy S
coat collar
That's all there was to it, But just as
the giraffe was lifting the boy clear of the
top of the chimney, the boys father was
coming tearing across the home lot. There
was some of the neighbors gathered
around by this time. and there was the
circus men standing around, and the cages
halted along the road, and when the big
giraffe bent his long neck and placed the
rescued youngster in his mothers arms,
the old man, who was sitting on his horse
in front, took off his hat, so that, simple
as it all was, it made quite a little tab
leau after all.
When we showed that afternoon the
tent wouldn't hold the people, and it was
the same at night. 1t seems that the boy
was a handsome and clever boy, that
everybody liked. and so the rescue was all
the more popular. OF course the old man
sent the whole family tickets, and he got
EN- to let the little chap ride around the
rong on the CRATES back. Did that get
EN-? Humph! 1t was a month before the
people in that part of the country stopped
talking about how the giraffe rescued the
boy from the chimney"