The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16

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 ogle everybody, and look wise and
distinguished.
! The sacred cattle are too good to
/ live and pose as the pious animals who
/ do not want 10 associate with the bad
| animals and are constantly wearing an
air of Il am holieT 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 the sacred cattle look hurt
and act like it Vas part Of Of their duty
+ TO take up a collection. and they bell
+ low a sort of hymn to drown the kick
/ ing.
| The different kind of goats in a me-
nagerie are the buters-in. or the new
/ rich who get in the way Of the society
| leaders and try to Guido them In So
| ciety stunts, but they smell 50 that the
/ other animals are made sick and the
goats are only tolerated because ami
NAL society is afraid to offend them,
for fear the leaders may some time go
into bankruptcy and the goats Will
take their places and never let them
get smell of the good things of life.
The bears are the working people of
the snow. ana the DIG SIIZZAleS di the
walking delegates who control the
amalgamated association of working
bears, and the occupants of the other
cages have got to cater TO Uncle
Ephaim, the walking delegate, or be
placed on the unfair list and slugged.
The hyenas aud the jackals. and the
wolves. represent the anarchists who
are down on everybody in the show.
who won't do a thing to help along
oil n az al 10
do anything. and seem 10 want 10
burn and slay, to 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 il down. and kill peo-
pie. and create a panic, and then these
anarchists sing and laugh and nejoy
their peculiar kind of animal religion.
The zebras and giraffes are the
dudes of the show. and you can ina
CINE. If they were human, they would
play tennis and golf, drive four in
hands and pose and be admired, while
the Royal Bengal tigers. if they We're
half human. would drive automobiles
at the rate of amile a minute on
crowded streets, run over people and
never stop TO help the wounded, but
skip away with sheer. as much as to
say: What are you going TO do about
it,"
The hyopopotamus is like the lazy
fat man that gToans from force or
habit, sits down as though il was the
last act of his life and only gets up
when the bell rings for meals, and he
sweats blood for fear he will lose his
meal ticket and starye to death.
The seals are the clean-cut Baptists
of the show. who believe in INNER
sion. and they have more brain than
any animals in the show. because they
live on fish diet, though they have
pneumonia cough that makes you feel
like sending for a doctor.
Gee. but last night when We thought
spring had come and We could start
on the road pretty soon, the snow fell
about a foot deep. and it was so cold
that 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 be comfor-
table except the polar bears, the artic
foxes and the fat woman The other
owners of the show thought it was
god time 10 take the boa constructor
and pull an liberated tooth, cause he
was sort of dumpish, SO pa and | help
ed hold the snake, which is about 20
feet long.
Pa was up near the snakes head.
and when the man with the forceps
got nol1 OF the tPOLn ana gave IL d
yank. the confounded snake come to
and began 10 stand on his head and
thrash around. and pa dropped his
hold and started to climb the center
pole. but he got caught in a gasoline
torch. and they had to turn a hose on
pa, and he was awfui scared, cause he
always did hate snakes, but they gave
the snake chloroform and got him
quie and pa came down. and they gave
him a pair OF baggy trousers belonging
to the clown. to go to dinner in, and
pa was q sight.