The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-06
TOLD By TIE OLD CIRCUS MAN.
Further Facts About How They Managed
when the Biz GiraG ne Had n Cold.

when the Biz GiraGe Had n Cold.
IT was telling you the other day" said tho
old circus man, about how our eighteen-foot
giraffe caught O cold that settled in his neck
and gave him q stiff neck, and how we had to
hist his food up for him to a ring fixed in the
centre pole. and how we used to put n strap
around his head and hook on q fall and have n
man ride down his neck in q bo'sun's chair and
rub In %liniment; but ! did not tell you about
how we managed to give him the medicine he
had 20 have at that time. Feeding him and
rubbing down his mock we did when we were
in camp, where we had some sort of conven-
fences for the work; tent up and centre pole in
place. and ladders where we could get at EN-
handy; and Of course It was simple enough to
give him his medicine there; but on the road IL
was different. There We had to manage tho
best way we could.
I'VE always used to give him his medicine
in muskmelons of which he was very fond.
We would cut q muskmelon in two and put in
the medicine and then stick 1t together again
and give him the melon whole; there was no
trouble getting him to tako medicine in this
way, because he would eat muskmelons all day
long If you'd give 'em to him; the only trouble,
now that he couldn't bend his neck. was about
how to get 'em up to him. In camp that was
easy enough; we just histed him up a melon on
the centre pole In a bucket. And after we'd
STRUCK the tcntb II utlOTt -"tu ROb every
thing loaded on the wagons. when his medicine
time come. which was every half hour, We just
run pp a TP q ri lHdd bim against : meIoh MIN 4 apd f % %"s % sssI
enough on the road. when We first started,
because there was trees along, and all we
had 10 do was just throw n rope over the limb
of a tree at the right height and haul him up q
melon in a bucket. But after a while we came
had to be done. We didn't any OF US realize 1t
until the minute arrive ed. and then 1t struck us
ali of q sudden that there wasn't any way OF
OF ting II nm In hlm. and then. IA uHlIAl. w0
called on the old man; and. as usual, he settled
It in about a minute, inst as he did everything.
OIL" %e e T f4ssbi
settled 1t; and 80 1t did; and we all wondered
VIC hadn't thought, OF IL ourselves. Treeby was
our great still walker Tresb!ingtoRP; we Always
was the greatest slit walker that ever stood on
s%tiits; He was a down East man. u young feller,
with perfect ease on stills eleven feet high; so
that when he was up he stood something more
we got Treeby up alongside the giraffe and u
man tossed him up one Of the melons and he
e esnaed ea IL up r to the ff% iE1sa'ori r wsSso w mou eoih NC
nave to stay there: and be did; But tn he didn't dtdn,t
TO walk alongside the big giraffe on stills and
every half hour hand hin. q m%uskmelon, and
show to tend sick giraf,es, but to walk on stills;
and DO doggoned II he'd stand 1t. But We got
MIN 10 worry through tlht uaS ana NJ nlgnI. Wo
collared tho old man again and told him that
Treeby. was sure to walk OF In the morning II
We called him up to the giraffe again, and. as
usual. the old man suggested an easy way out
OF that. He said put n head-stall on the giraffe
and put a ring on the throat latch and reeve
rope through that and hist his medicine up to
him that way.
And next day that's what we did. OF
course we kept the rope In the ring like you
lkeop, the hniliards rove through, the truck on q
liberty pole: and We used to make the ends fast
round the upper part OF his nigh fore log. where
we could reach 'em. When his medicine time
came. II we was in an open country, we'd Just
cast of tho halliards and make a bucket fast to
one end and hist him mp his melon. Though
his neck was stiff as a tree hs could bend his
head all right, and he could get the melon out
of tho bucket without any difficulty; and we
didn't have 10 do this very long, anyway. be-
cause, as | told you, IL wasn't moron q week
before he was ali right again"