Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-08

dinner, but II ,ou wander around ant
sort OF Init in, tie eleplaEts are on Il
you in q minute and roll their eyes al
you land look upon you al com
mon person" and IL you attempt any
familiarity they look at you as much
as to say: "Sir. am not allowed tc
associate with any except the AGO.
Then they turn their backs and act SO
much like shoddy aristocracy that you
would swear they were human.
remember whom pa was first In the
elephant corral, the keeper forgot &c
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 pinched q bunch on the
elephants leg and said to the keeper:
THAT looks to me like a SPAWN" and
he nebbed 1t hard. Well, the elephant
| groaned like boy with q : stone
bruise on his heel, and before pa knew
what was coming the elephant wound
| his trunk under pa and raised pa upor
his tusks and was going to toss him il
the air and catch him as he came
down and walk on him, when ps
yelled murder. and the keeper took al
iron hook and hooked 1t into the ele
plants skin. and said: Let that mar
down. and he let pa down easy, ant
| the keeper some way showed the ele
plant that pa was one of the owner.
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 K
some one that is as good or better thar
they, or like an impudent employee whe
has insulted his employer and is afraiC
OF losing his job After that whenevel
pa and | go around the elephants the]
bow down to us, and | think | coult
take an iron hook and drive an ele
plant anywhere.
There are all classes among the ami
mails in menagerie the same as .hu
man society. The lions are like thu
leaders of society who are well borr
| and proud, but poor They are Away.
| invited everywhere, but never enter
tain, though they kick and find fault
and ogle everybody. and look wise anl
distinguished.
The sacred cattle are too good tx
| live and pose as the pious animals whC
| do not want to associate with the bat
animals and are constantly wearing al
air of IL am holier than any of you,
but they will reach through the bars
of their cage and steal alfalfa from thu
Yak and the mule deer, and If they
| kick about it the sacred cattle lool
hurt and act like it was part OF theil
duty to take up a collection, and they
below sort OF hymn to drown the
kicking.
! TIE different kind of goats In 6
| menagerie are the butters-in, or the
new rich, who get in the way of the
| society leaders and try to Guido then
in society stunts, but they smell Sc
| that the other animals are made sicl
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 tbs
goats will take their places and nevel
let them get smell OF the good things
of life. -<-~
The bears are the working people OF
the show, and the big grizzlies are the
, n aIking delegates who control the
amalgamated association of WORKING
bears, and the occupants of the othei
cages have got to cater to Uncle
Ephriam. the walking delegate. OF
be placed Oh the unfair list ant
slugged.
The hyenas and the jackals, and tht
| wolves, represent the anarchists WHIT
are down on everybody in the show
who won't do thing TO help alonf
ind won't allow any other animal Il
do anything, and who seem to want tt
burn and slay, TO carry torch b,
night and poison by day.. and wan
| everything IN the show to be chaos
Those animals are never so happy q,
when the wind and lightning strike tn,
tent, and blow 1t down, and kill PEG
| pie and create panic, and then thes,
anarchists sing and laugh and EMO.
their peculiar kind OF animal re
ligion.
The zebras and CRATES are th,
dudes of the show, and you can imag
Inc, If they were human, they would
play tennis and golf. drive four II
hands and pose to be admired, whil
| the Royal Bengal tigers, If they wer,
half human, would drive automobile
at the rate of a mile minute OF
crowded streets, run over people ant
never stop to help the wounded, blu
skip away with sneer, as much as Il
say: What are you going to ds
| about it,
The seals are the clean-cut Baptist,
of the show. who believe In INNER
sion, and they have more brain thai
any animals In the show, because the,
1--we on a fish diet, though they have
pneumonia cough that makes you fee
like sending for a doctor.
Gee, but last night when we though
tspring had come and we could star
on the road pretty soon, the snow fel
about foot deep, and it was so COLI
that all the animals howled all night
and shivered, and went on a regular
strike. We had to put blankets OIL
them, and no one of them seemed Il
lie comfortable except the polar bears
/ the arctic foxes and the fat woman
The other owners Of the show though
it was a good time to take the DO.
constructor and pull an liberated tooth
cause he was sort of dumpish. SO D.
and helped hold the snake, which il
about 20 feet long.
/ Pa was up near the snakes head
and when the man with the forcep
got hold of the tooth and gave 1t
yank. the COMPOUNDED snake come I,
and began to stand on his head ant
thrash around, and pa dropped hi
hold and started to climb the cente
pole, but he got caught In a gasoline
torch, and they had to turn hose o.
pa, and he was awful scared. cause b.
always did hate snakes. but they CAV
the snake chloroform and got hin