The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19

nicked big leopard, which he was
trying to get the training mastery Of
in the eye with his cat whip. The
leopard hoped him and was about tC
claw him apart, when the boss cat man.
who was outside the cage stuck q pair
of red-hot pole-length irons through
the cage bars and let the snarling Loop
ard have them in about a dozen diff
ferent sections of his pelt at once. The
leopard curled up at that and skunk
to a corner of his cage, while the new
cat man crawled out of the cage, pref
ty glad to slam the door behind him.
"On the following day the boss cat
man stepped into that leopard's cage
to put him through his PAGES at the
afternoon show, as he had been doing
every exhibition day for couple OF
years. The leopard jumped him i'm
mediately and pulled most of the hide
off the boss cat mans breast and arms
before he again yielded to the hot irons
from outside the cage.
1.-THE boss cat man had nursed the
leopard through several bad attacks
of sickness, had fixed UP an ugly
liberated tooth that the leopard had,
and had INDUCED and molly-coddled
him in a way quite unusual with cat
men for more than two years. But
the leopard brushed all of that by when
he developed his grudge against the
cat man on account of the burning he
had got from him with the hot irons.
He remembered only the injury.
THE cats remember, all right, and
they have mighty uncomfortable MEM
cries at times. In Omaha, the last
time 1 was there with the old show,
a little imp of a small boy, wearing a
green-peaked cap, something like a
Jockeys, stood in front of the cage of
one of the lionesses and furtively
amused himself by popping at her
eyes with buckshot, which he fired
from a bean-shooter. 1t was pretty
strong cage that she was in, but she
snapped two of the steel bars in her
madness to get loose and get at the
boy, and bent several others. One of
the keepers booted the kid with the
green cap all the way home. From
that hour the lioness got into rage
every time she spied any sort of a
green head covering in the crowds in
front of her cage. She would launch
herself against the bars and roar at
the sight of a green veil on woman's
hat and, parading, when she saw
raised green parasol she scared timid
spectators by her fury. She got to
hate green worse than bull hates
a red auction f1ag-it became an OBJ
session with her-and / wonder If she
didn't come pretty near showing, in
that, that she possessed a good MEM
ory
elephants have just as good mem
cries as ADMINISTRATOR than a good
many humans that I've met. We had
a seasoned old peanut cruncher of an
African bull elephant that probably
knew the flavor of the circus saw
dust long before I began to teethe-
and I'm no gosling-that showed me
once what rafting good memory he
had slowed beueath those two big
knobs on the top sides of his head.
One year we made our first fall tour
of Mexico, around the northern prov
inces. There were not many railroads
down that way then, and we made a
lot of towns by overland lakes, in
the course of which there was heap
of fording to be done by the big ami
mails.
This old bull elephant got begged
one morning in a sort Of quicksand
in the bed of a 100-yard-wide creek,
which the show was fording to Chi
huahua. We had to do a lot of hurry
work in the way of rigging up block
and tackle paraphernalia to yank the
old chap out of the mire, and he had
the sulks for several weeks after the
incident. II happened, however, for
tunately, that that was the last ford
we had to make during that tour.
well, we went down TO cid Mexico
again for the tour over the same
ground four years later. The old ele-
plant made all OF the fords In good
shape and with perfect willingness, but
when he came 10 the ford In which
he'd got mired four years before he
buoked, and he bucked hard.
There was simply nothing doing. He
wouldn't ford that creek under any
circumstances. As soon as he got 10
the verge Of II and looked II over out
OF his beady red eyes he recognized
the stream. and he trumpeted and