Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09
MAGAZINE


snarling and showing his teeth like a cat that
has located mouse hole, and the tiger seemed
to say: "Oh I saw it first and it's mine"
The hyena set tip laugh like man who
is not tickled, but feels that it is up to him
to laugh at funny story that he can't see
the point of at banquet where Chauncey De-
pew tells one of his cripple. jokes, ana pa was
getting nervous. A big grizzly bear was walk
ing delegate in his cage, and he looked at pa
as much as to say: Hello, Teddy, was not
It home when you called in Colorado but you
get in this cage, and will make you think the
Spanish war was Sunday school picnic be-
side what you will get from your Uncle
Fphraim," and a 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 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 began to laugh at pa just
like lot Of bad boys in school when visitors
make call. Pa went around to visit all the
animals officially, while got interested in
female kangaroo, with couple of babies, not
more than three weeks old, and l noticed the
mother kangaroo 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 in the presence
of their wives.
Pa Goes Kangarooing
The female kangaroo is surely wonder,
and seems to be built on plans and specihca-
tons different 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
hurry-up move towards ma. the pouch opens.
and they jump in out of sight like gopher
gong into its hole. and the mother looks
around as innocent as can be, as much as to
say: You can search me, don't know hon
estly, where those kids have gone, but they
were around here not more than minute
ago"
And when the fright is over the two heads
peep out of the top of the pouch, and the old
man grunts, as much as to say: ''Oh, come on
out, there is no danger, and let your ma have
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
kangaroo pouch is success, and I wonder
why nature did not provide pouches for all
animals to carry their young in. | think Pull
man must have got his ideas of sleeping car
by seeing kangaroo pouch. / am going to
study the kangaroo, and make friends with the
old man kangaroo, cause he looks as though
he had troubles of his own
Pa showed up without any coat, while
was kangarooing, and there was rip in his
pants, and | asked him what was the trouble,
and he said he got too near the cage of leop-
ard, that seemed to be asleep, and the traitor
reached out his paw and gathered in the tail of
pas coat and just snatched it off his back as
though it was made of paper.
Pa is little discouraged about his expert
ence 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 its
excitement Tomorrow they are going to ex-
tract tooth from the boa-constrictor, and
pa and are going to help hold him. while the
animal dentist pulls the TOOTH and oil the hip
popotamus and get everything ready to start
out on the road, and can't write any more in
my diary until after we fix the snake. Gee,
but he is as long as clothesline.