The Monticellonian., 1905-11-23

you III q minute and roll their eyes at you and look upon you as a com mon person" and if you attempt any familiarity they look at you as much as to say: Sir, I am not allowed to associate with any except the 4O0.' Then they turn their backs and act SO much like shoddy aristocracy that you would swear they were human.
 l remember when pa was first in the elephant corral, the keeper forgot to tell the big elephant who pa was. and when the keeper raised up one foot of the elephant and examined corn. pa went up and pinehed bunch on the elephants leg and said to the keeper: That looks to me like a spayin," and he nebbed it hard. Well, the elephant groaned like boy with stone bruise on his heel, and before pa knew what was coming the elephant wound his trunk under pa and raised pa upon his tusks and was going to toss him in the air and catch him as he came down and walk on him. when pa yelled murder. and the keeper took an iron hook and hooked it into the ele- plants skin. and said. Let that man down, and he let pa down easy, and the keeper some way showed the eIe- phant that pa was one of the owners of the show, and that elephant acted just as human as could be, for he fair ly toadied to pa, like a society leader that has given the cold shoulder to some one that is a- good or better than they, or like an impudent employe who has insaIted his employer and is afraid of losing his job After that whenever pa and l go around the elephants they DON down To Us. and 1 think 1 could take an iron hook and drive an ele phant anywhere.
 There are all classes among the ani- mals in menagerie the same as hu- man society. The lions are like the leaders of society who are well born and proud but poor. They are always invited everywhere but never enter- tain. though they kick and find fault. and osle everybody, and look wise and distinguished
 The sacred cattle are too good to live and pose as the pious animals who do not want to associate with the bad animals and are constantly wearing an air of T am holier than any of you, but they will reach through the bars of their cage and steal alfalfa from the Yak and the mule deer and if they kick about il the sacred cattle look hurt and aet like it was part of their duty 10 take up a collection. and they below sort of hymn to drown the kicking.
 The different kind of goats in menagerie are the butters-in, or the new rich whe get in the way of the society leaders and try to outdo them in society stunts. but they smell so that the other animals are made sick and the goats are only tolerated be cause animal society Is afraid to of lend them. for fear the leaders may some time go into bankruptcy and the goats will take their places and never let them get a smell of the good things of life
 The bears are the working people of the show. and the big grizzlies are the walking delegates who control the amalgamated association of working bears and the occupants of the other cages have got to cater to Uncle Ephriam. the walking delegate, or be placed on the unfair list and slugged
 The hyenas and the jackals, and the wolves, represent the anarchists who are down on everybody in the show. who won't do thing to help along and won't allow any other animal to do anything and who seem 10 want to burn and slay. 10 carry a torch by night and poison by day, and want everything in the show to be chaos. Those animals are never so happy as when the wind and lightning strike the tent, and blow ii down, and kill peo- pie, and create panic, and then these anarchists sing and laugh and enjoy their peculiar kind of animal re- ligion
 The zebras and giraffes are the dudes of the show and you can imag- inc. if they were human. they would play tennis and golf. drive four in hands and pose to be admired, while the Royal Bengal tigers. if they were half human would drive automobiles at the rate of mile a minute on crowded streets, run ever people and never stop to help the wounded. but skip away with sheer, as much as to say What are you going to dc about it"
 The seals are the clean-eut Baptists of the show. who believe in immer. sion, and they have more brain than any animals in the show. because they live on a fish diet though they have pneumonia cough that makes you feei like sending for doctor.
 Gee. but last night when we though spring had come and we could stars on the road pretty soon the snow fell about foot deep, and it was so cold that all the animals hoWled all night. and shivered, and went on a regular strike. We had to put blankets on them. and no one of them seemed to he comfortable except the polar bears the arctic foxes and the fat woman The other owners of the show thought il was q good time to take the boa constructor and pull an Liberated tootk cause he was sort of dumpish. so pa and helped hold the snake. which is about 20 feet long.
 Pa was up near the snakes head and when the man with the foreeps got hold of the tooth and gave il q yank. the confounded snake come 10 and began to stand on his head and thrash around, and pa dropped his hold and started to climb the center