The copper era., 1904-06-23
CLAIMS BEAUTIFUL GEORGE.
An Ohio Man Recognizes George as an
 Old Time Pet.
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 have been finding great deal ol
 pleasure in reading it every week and
 you have had no more trouble with me
 than 10 receive pay for my suoscrip-
 ton regularly. But l sec now that some 0ne has captured my old pet,
 Gila monster. and this calls upon me
 for word. What few real old timers are still ther. VII remember well
 when had him picketed with d Ma
 ni.la rope at Oro By the way sup
 pose Gro ;s suburb of Clifton now.
 A nearly d. | am informed think
 Col. Ben M. Crawford. I. V. Stevens and Judge Hank ArbuckIe are about all that are left Of the crew that were
 on duty whcn had EomuIo, aa he
 wa7 named in 80 and 'Sl. 1T you will
 kindly call thei' attention think they
 will remember him. am satisfied
 ibis i7 ,tc same from what you say Of
 him. He was seven year, old then and
 would now bc about thirty. You can tell his age by counting the rings on his tail: one is added for each year.
 He was d very intelligent monster
 was this HomulD. He readily learned
 United States and Mexican, but when it came to Chinese he drew the line. Col. Ben will remember my Chinese cook. Well, when that Chinaman un- der;ook to teach that quadruped the language of hi7 forbearcrs, the well behaved, good natured. sluggish, -caly. sleepy brute objected. He be- came SO disguzted and disgruntled that whenever that Chinaman came near he would begin to blow. and he'd blow worse than old man O.leby or "Eiack Jack" By this means you can identify the Gila monster in questions; il he understands English and Spanish and goes on a blow and strikes at Chinese, you may know of surety that he is my old pct. His food at that time was principally anything | that came within reach of his mouth | or anything he could get his mouth | within reach of. He bad habit Of | sleeping with one eye at A time so he would not miss any edible thing. His favorite song was, "Mi Padre es en Para Leimc.' And he was not ob- livious tO the charms O. the fair sex, and when the seuorita sang this song for him in her most dulce strain he was beside himself with delight. Dulce wa- his joy, but popcorn was as scarce at that time in the Frisco val ley as mauna i, al present It is not straiuing d point to prophecy that with little training, he will look aiic" the gcntiemau's wardrobe and keep hi, house in order when he is at home and when he k away as well. All sorts of insects and vermin that a"e native to Arizona are hi, meat so the gentleman nccd have no fear on that source.
 Contrary to the custom O; most of the inhabitants of Arizona at that time. he didn't drink. l see Brother Wells has been keeping record Of the rainfall of that section fora mum. bcr of years and the las; season would have suited Romulo as well as any He didn't care whether prohibition carried or not. He was proof agains, the saloon or its influences 1T it is true a. ! have heard stated. that he is like beaver and can live in the watc.' or out ot the water. he demod- -tra,cd that he can live out of the watc" out gave no indication that he could live in the wat,r or that he could live with water ;n him. still his tail was Do; a. flat d. shiugle nor h, didn't u,n it for d t"owel don't know that he had any occasion To use A trowel.
 My respect for my old pet has prompted me to say something in his favor trust his new master will treat him kindly and with all the re- >neci his age demands. If there is any lingering doubt as to the identity { of this Gila monster ! will further : state that he was slightly wlndshakeu ( in his left shoulder. This doubtless came from his blowing. You can ! sure tell him by his blowing. To il- ! lustrate what may result from his [ | Q, an old stingy Jew who lives down here. He had a hen. He was too stingy to geta store box or something 10 make a nest for her and she was ( naturally d layer But she was cheerlnI hen and kept singing and $ growing larger and larger and bigger | and fdttcr and the old Jew was tickled ( nearly to deatE. He didn't feed her [ anything hardly and as hens were [ worth sixteen cents pound he ( thought she was gaining about four { cents d day, but one day trouble came ( and the hen exploded. The trouble $ was, the eggs kept accommodating and accommodating and there was no | nest to lay them iu, so the hen just $ naturally ''busted.'
 Moral-The Gila monste. may blow ' and bust"
 This is all I have to say about the pet. J. M. YANKIE
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