Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-14
having a good laugh underneath.

having a good laugh underneath.
The monkey is a naturalborn mis-
chiefmaker He sits up to think of
ways and means to fool or worry some
body. In st. Louis last year a Well
dressed youngster. who looked as if
things came his way easily, was show
ing q number of girls around the me-
nagarie, and, wanting to make fun of
them, he picked out JIM as big a
rogue as there is in the whole monkey
family, but he looks as innocent as n
baby.
This young fellow handed the mon
key cigar. with the hot end first.
Jim was not anybodys fool, by a long
awful row. The keeper says Jim
swears. and if he does, that day he let
go of some scorching Gus words. But
'Jir' was not anybodys fool, by long
shot, and. shutting his mouth tight, he
waited his chance and shot the cigar
back at his tormentor. The lighted end
hit the chap square in the eye, and,
crazy with pain, he was taken to the
entrance of the big tent and the sore
optic bathed till the doctor came.
Jim screamed and jumped up and
down as If he had lost his head, and
all the animals around showed signs OF
interest and joined in the noise.
"Of course monkey will steal. He
can't help it. Most animals hook
things they want to eat The monkey
takes them just for the satisfaction OF
getting them. After that he forgets
and doesn't care where the things go.
"A funny thing happened here in
90 ar uH.an t1.,iy M
er tried to make a picture of an eie-
plant with his trunk turned UP and his
mouth wide open. He had with him
a fiat-looking young fellow, who threw
nuts and candies into the elephants
mouth. so as to hake him hold it open
and often made believe to throw them
without doing so. This was Badly,
one of the best elephants that ever liv-
ed, but he didn't like this kind of fool
ing, and seemed to know that the
painter was more to blame than the
fresh boy. So, waiting his chance,
when the picture was nearly finished,
he dashed q quantity of water from his
trunk over the paper and ruined the
sketch upon which the man had been
working so seriously.
Another elephant called Sandy
used to get his fun out of worrying cat
tie almost to DEATH Every time he saw
a bunch of cows grazing in a pasture
near a barn he would drop behind the
column of elephants. This was when
we used to move from town to town by
wagon. Then he would grab up as
much dust in his trunk as he could car
ry and sneak up on the cattle under
cover of the barn.
when he got within Charging dis
lance he would tear out on the run,
blow the dust in a cloud and trumpet
for all he was worth. The cattle would
run as if the bad man was after them,
and that cid rogue, Sandy would come
back to the road and paddle along be-
hind the rest of the column as quiet as
you please. If we tried to stop him
from having his little joke he would be
ugly and mean for a week.
THE tables We're turned on Sandy
once, however. One of the baby, ele-
plants had been troubled with stomach
ache, and the doctor ordered the old
fashioned remedy of brandy and pep
permint. A gallon demijohn of this
was brought to the show and set in
reach of Sandy while the man who
brought the medicine came to look for