The Forrest City times., 1905-11-17

| trucks of freight train and taking him to the dining car of the limited, | and letting him eat to finish. Peo- l pie talk about animals escaping from | captivity, and going back to the jun ! s!es 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 1 your circus train 10 New Albany without them, aud they would follow ] the train and oyertake 1t 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 l 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 big lion bent one eye on pa, and then be rose up and shook himself, and gave roar and cough that sounded like he had the worst ease of pneumonia and he snorted couple of times. as though he was say ing to the other animals: Heres something that will kill you dead. and l want you all To have piece of il. raw, and he prayed some more. and all the animals jeined in the chorus, the big tiger lying down on his slom- aeh and waving his tail. and snaIlins .l 4=Ae,, l.s has located a mouse hole. and the i tiger seemed to say: 70, saw il first and it's mine"
 The hyena set up a laugh like man who is not tiekled, but feels that it is up to him 10 laugh at a funny story that he can't see the point oi 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, 1 was not at home when you called in Colorado but you get in this cage, ani will make you think the Spanish war was a Sunday-school picnic beside what you will get from yOui dHtit dllD, anu d DOD tdt jumped up into the top of his cage and snarled and showed his teeth, and seemed to say: Bring on your nols pack of dogs and l will eat them alive"
 Pa threw out his chest in front of monkey cage and a monkey snatehed his watch, and then all the animals be- | to lat, at i,,c lot # h.A boys in school when visitors make call Pa went around to visit all the aui- mals, officially. while 1 got interested in a female kangaroo with couple of babies, not more than three weeks l old, and 1 noticed the mother kan garoo made the old man kangaroo. her 1 husband stand around, and he acted i just like some men I have seen who were afraid to say their souls were l their own II the presence of their l wives.
 The female kangaroo is surely a wonder, and seems to be built on
 plans and specifications differen, from
 any other animal, cause she has got fur-lined pouch on her stomach, just
 like vest, that she carries her young in. When the babies are frightened
 they make a hurry-up move towards
 ma, the pouch opens, and they jump in out of sight. like gopher going i into it's hole, and the mother looks 1 around as innocent as can be, as much
 as to say: You can search ne, l don't know, honestly. where those l kids have gone, but they were around 1 here not more than a minute ago."
 And when the fright IS over Inc two
 heads peep out of the top or the
 pouch, and the old man grunts. as
 much as 10 say: 70. come on out. there
 is no danger, and let your ma have
 a little rest, cause she is nervous" !"
 and then the babies come out and run
 around the cage, and sit up on their ! hind feet, and look wise That lan-
 garoo pouch is a success, and l won
 der why nature did not provide
 pouches for all animals to carry their
 young in. I think Pullman must have got his ideas for the upper and lower
 berths Of q sleeping car by seeing a
 kangaroo po1ch. -tm gong to study
 the kangaroo, and make friends with
 the old man kangaroo, cause he looks
 as though he had troubles or his own.
 Pa showed up without any coat,
 while l was kangarooing. and there
 was rip in his pants, and asked him
 what was he trouble and he said ho
 got too near the cage Of q leopard,
 that seemed to be asleep, and he
 traitor reached out his paw and gath
 cred in the tail of pas coat. and just
 snatched it of his back as though it
 was made of paper.
 Pa is a little discouraged about his
 experience in the circus the first day,
 but he says it will be great when we
 get the run of the business. He says
 every day will have it's excitement To-
 morrow they are going to extract a 1 tooth from the oa-constrictor, and
 pa and l are going to help hold him.
 while the animal dentist pulls tha
 tooth, and then we scrub the rhinoce-