Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-12-13

haunts, is like taking a hobo of the
trucks of freight train and taking
him to the dining car of the limited,
and letting him eat to finish Peo-
pie talk about animals escaping from
captivity. and going back to the jun
giles, and humane societies shed tears
over the poor, sad-eyed captives, sigh
ing for their homes, but you turn
them loose at South Bend, and run
your circus train to New Albany
without them, and they would follow
the train and overtake it before the
evening performance the next day, and
you would find them trying to break
| into their cages again, and they would
| have to be fed
When pa and | went into the barn
! where the cages were, to take an ac-
count of stock, and get acquainted
with our animals, they acted just like
the circus men did, when they saw
pas clothes. The animals were about
half asleep when we went in, but a
| big lion bent one eye on pa, and
then he rose up and shook himself,
and gave roar and a cough that
sounded like he had the worst case of
pneumonia, and he snorted a couple
OF times, as though he was say
| ing to the other animals: Here's
something that will kill you dead. and
l want you all to have piece of it,
raw" and he brayed some more, and
all the animals joined in the chorus.
the big tiger lying down on his SOM
ach and waving his tail, and snarling
and showing his teeth like cat that
has located a mouse hole, and the
tiger seemed to say: co. l saw it first
and it's mine"
The hyena set up laugh like man
who is not tickled, but feels that it
is up to him to laugh at a funny
story that he can't see the point of at
a banquet where Chauncey Depew tells
one of his crippled jokes, and pa was
getting nervous. A big grizzly bear
was walking delegate in his cage and
he looked at pa as much as to say:
Hello. Teddy, | was not at home whea
you called in Colorado, but you get
in this cage, and l will make you think
the Spanish war was a SundayschoOl
picnic beside what you will get from
your uncle Ephraim,' and bob cat
jumped up into the top OF his cage
and snarled and showed his teeth, and
seemed to say: Bring on your whole
pack of dogs and l will eat them
alive"
Pa threw out his chest in front Of
a monkey cage, and monkey SnatChed
his watch, and then all the animals be-
gan to laugh at pa just like lot OF bad
boys in school when visitors make call.
Pa went around to visit all the ami
mails. officially, while 1 got interested
in a female kangaroo, with couple
of babies, not more than three weeks
old, and 1 noticed the mother kan
CARGO made the old man kangaroo. her
husband, stand around, and he acted
just like some men | have seen who
were afraid to say their souls were
their own II the presence of their
wives.
The female kangaroo is surely a
wonder, and seems to be built on
plans and specifications different from
any other animal, cause she has got
a fur-lined pouch on her stomach, just
like vest. that she carries her young
they make a hurry-up move towards
ma, the pouch opens, and they jump
in out of sight, like a gopher going
into its hole and the mott her looks
around as innocent as can be, as much
as to say: You can search me,
don't know, honestly, where those
kids have gone, but they were around
here not more than a minute ago
And when the fright is over the two
heads peep out of the top or the
pouch, and the old man grunts, a:
is no danger, and let your ma have
little rest, cause she is nervous.
and then the babies come out and rur
& around the cage, and sit up on thei1
a hind feet, and look wise. That Kan
q CARGO pouch is a success, and | won
It der why nature did not provide
|. pouches for all animals to carry thei
: young in | think Pullman must hav
got his ideas for the upper and lowe
:. berths of a sleeping car by seeing
e kangaroo pouch l am going to stud,
d the kangaroo, and make friends witt
d the old man kangaroo, cause he look
d as though he had troubles OF his own
IS Pa showed up without amy coat
n while | was kangarooing. and tier
< was a rip in his pants, and l asked hin
o what was the trouble. and he said h.
l. got too near the cage of a leopard
S that seemed to be asleep, and tn
k traitor reached out his paw and gath
e. cred in the tail OF pas coat, and jus
k snatched it oft his back as though
was made of -aper.
d Pa is a little discouraged about nj
Is experience in the circus the first day
e but he says it will be great wheI W
If get the run of the business. He say