The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-09-10
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A Girafre's sore Throat.

Boston Herald: Seems to me I told
you once said the old circus man.,
about the giraffe having a sore
throat? 1t is u serious matter for any
giraffe to have Il sore throat; bad for
the giraffe and bad for the owner.
When you come to take an 1S-foot
giraffe like ours, n sore throat means
large expense and a large amount Of
trouble; and the big fellow hadn't
more'en got over this before some
thing else happened that give us even
mor trouble. He caught cold, and the
cold settled in his throat suppose
he was still sensitive there-and it
give him a stiff neck, so that he
couldn't bend his neck at all.
You can't have any idea of what a
stiff neck means until you see q
giraffe afflicted in that way; we'd had
all sorts of trouble with animals in one
way or another, but for real bother
This beat EN- all. We discovered it one
ducked his head under the branches
that hung down, sort of like a swan or
goose does, but this dey, carrying his
head right up straight in the air, he
brought up against a branch that was
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That was such an amazing thing that
ter, and when the giraffe keeper came
up and sopke to him, and all he did
was to bend his nose down and look
down, why, we saw he couldn't bend
his neck, and then we knew what was
the matter.
swell, of course, the first thing we
did was IN eaf n man RI noarnh olour.
side of him with q tent pole, with a
crotch in the end OF it, to lift the
branches for him. Most of the time
almost all the time, in fact-we could
steer him clear of overhanging bran
ches, and, of course, lots of the way
there was long stretches where there
wasn't any trees at all; and then we'd
come to places where the maj would
have to lift a branch to let the big
giraffe go under; and a great pity it
was, too, to see him compelled to go
about in that manner.
II went that way for about ten
days. Ordinarily, we used to put his
feed for him o top of the animal cage,
SO that he wouldn't have to bend down
more than eight or ten feet; but we
couldn't do that now So we set n ring
in the center pole eighteen feet from
the ground, and we used to reeve q
rope through that ard make one end
fast to the bucket, with his food or
drink in it, and hoist it up and let him
eat there. On the road we used to
throw the rope over the crotch of a
tree at a suitable height. For his entry
into the great tent at show time we
had to cut a great slit in the canvas;
but we didn't regret that, because it
was a nightly impressive thing to see
him march in that way. 1t made him
look thirty-six feet tall instead of
eighteen.
Twice n day n MAJ used to go up
on n ladder and put a strap around his
head, and we'd hook on a fall, with q
bo'sun's chair, and a man would ride
down his neck and rub in liniment.
He used to like that very much, and it
helped him greatly, too, and one morn
ing when the men went out to give
him the usual rub, they We're delight
ed to see the old chap with his head
bowed down pretty near the roof OF
the grizzly pear cage, which stood
next to him. which showed that his
neck was coming around all right. and
also indicated that he'd take his break
fast this morning in the old way, if
you please