The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-08

by and by a fire company came out with
ladders. 1t was warm June night, with
a bright moon, and | could see mobs OK
people on every path and drive. must
say that that baby behaved splendiily.
1t never made a whimper. and IL wasn't
a bit afraid of me. 1t was the first baby
/ had ever had in my arms, and / was
curious about its hands and face and
hair. BY and by | rocked TO and fro and
chartered in a whisper, and 1t wasn't long
before II was asleep. l don't think any
other New York baby ever went to sleep
in tree top.
The superintendent tried oil sorts OF
coaxlng ways to get me to come down.
He got fruit and cakes and nuts and
candy ard placed them at the OF of the
tree. and he wbistled and called and said
all sorts of nice things. but / only smiled
at him. j didn't int TO be captured
as easy as that. When he saw that he
couldn't get me down he had the firemen
put up their long ladder That made ne
smile again, for all l had to do was to
walk out on long branch to be safe.
If 1t hafn't BEEN for the faty / expec.
they would have tried to Dive me out OF
the tree by throwi ston s, but they
were afraid they might hit the M tie fell
low, you see. Baby slept for an hour or
more and then woke up hug y. ] knew
he was hungry, because I'd been O little
kid myself once and used TO s. ok my
fingers and whimper just that way.
thought II was about me 10 give him
back to his mother, who was crying in
the crowd. and all Of a sudden / ran in
on the branch and slipped down the
trunk OF the tree. ! was so quick about
1t that the men were taken by surprise
dozen of them came rushing up. but
before they could reach me / lad the
baby In the grass and bound d away
II was all In the pap rs next morning
with a pretty good picture of me, but as
couldn't read I had TO be satisfied with
looking at the p cture. 1t was a pretty
good one. though not quite IS good
looking as / am
The men took alter me as ran away.
and presently came to a path where
there was a great crowd OF spectators.
When they saw me coming across the
grass most Of them ran here and there,
but there was number of men and boys
who tried to stop me. They waved hats
and fiourished canes about and cried:
"ghoor' but wasn't afraid. There was
one man with his cane In one hand and his
hat In the other, and as ] got rear enough
I sprang right on his bare head. He was
bald-headed. and gave him few digs he
viii remember for a good while to come.
/ frightened him so badly that he fell
down and other people fell over him, and
as passed on heard the superintendent
of the Zoo saying that the whole pack OF
them didn't know as much as ring-tailed
monkey. AS could run four times as fast
as the men was soon out OF sight and
hearing Then climbed into a tree with
a busny top, found place to suit me, and
being tired with my exercise | soon fell
asleep. / knew that when daylight came
there would be hundreds of men out look
ing for me, but l meant to be ahead Of
them. / wanted TO travel about and see
something of the country. and so l PLAN
ned to wake up just as the first birds were
moving about.
In my next I am going to tell you how
I got my breakfast, ran a boarding house
and took a street car ride without costing
me a cent.