Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-18
On the Road With
Raiah
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Ka1an might 90 tOr q lawn ornament ana MAKE
himself useful as fountain during dry spells
but when he noticed that Rajah didn't have
any tusks he said it was all off. He knew wher,
he could buy a whole cast-iron menag
erie, with all the frills thrown in at half the
price.
And we want holding Rajah at any swell
figure. He was the bargain counter wher
the sale began. Every day was fifty-per cent
clearance with u.s. We were closing out ou
line of elephants on account of retiring from
business, and Rajah a remnant.
But they wouldn't buy. Generally they
threatened to set the dogs on us. 1t wa!
worse than trying to sell cargo of fur over
coats in Panama In time it began to leal
through into our heads that Raj ah wa n
negotiable. Didn't seem to trouble him any
He was Just as glad to be with us as at first
followed us around like a pet poodle, and go
away with his bale of hay regular as {
Rialto hamfatter raidin' the free lunch.
us it a life sentence, Pinckney?" says I
" Is this twin foSter-brother act to a mislaiC
elephant to be continuous performance? L
it is we better hit the circuit regular and draw
our dough on salary day. For me- I'm SIcl
of havin' folks act like was a quarantine
station. Let's anchor Rajah to something
solid and skdoo.''
But Pinckney couldn't stand it to think OF
Rajah being left to suffer. He was gettin' kind
of sore on the business, just the same. Then
he plucks thought. He wires to friend OF
his in Newport to run down to the big circus
headquarters and jolly them into sending an
elephant-trainer up to us.
"A trainer will know how to coax Rajah
off" says he, and perhaps he will take him
as q, gift" . 1900.
But it wasn't That duck at Newport sends
back a message that covers four sheets of
yellow paper tellin' how glad he was to get
track Of Pinckney again and how he must
come down right away Oh, they wanted
p;rc1-,e,, L.Jf Il ,,,e fa +t,a 20, Cf +Lo Lii
for twenty-round 60 with the referee Tnissin'
Seems that Mrs. Jerry Toynbee was tryin'
to pull off one of those backyard affairs that
win newspaper space-some kind of a fool
amateur circus-and they'd got to have
Pinckney there to manage it or the thing
would flush. As for the elephant-trainer,
he'd forgot that.
by Jove" says Pinckney, real sassy like
That's DRAWN it mild" says I. Would
you like the loan of few able-bodied cuss-
words2"
But have an idea" says Pinckney,
"Handcuff it" says l; its a case of
breakin' and enterin'."
But he didn't have so much loft-room to let,
after all His first move was to hunt up a
railroad station and charter a boX-car. We
carpets it with hay, has a man knock together
a couple of high hunks in one end, and throws
in some new horse-blankets.
"Now says Pinckney, you and l and
Rajah will start for Newport on the night
freight "
Have you asked Raiah?" says |.
But Rajah knew all about riding in box
cars. He walked up the plank after us just
like we was a pair of Noahs. Goggles was
sent off over the road with the cart, all by his
lonesome.
I've Travelled good deal with real sports
and once | came back from St. Louis with the
delegates to a national convention, but this
was my first trip in an animal-car. 1t wasn't
so bad, though, and it was all over by day
light next morning There wasn't anyone in
sight but milkmen and bakers boys as we
drove down Bellevue-ave., with Rajah grippin
the rear axle of our cab. | don't know how
he felt about buttin' into Newport society
at that time of day, but l looked for a COZ
to pinch us as second-story men.
We fetches up at the SWEETEST kind of a ranch
you saw, iron gates to it like a storage
warehouse, and behind that trees and bushes
and lawn, like a slice out of Central Park
Pinckney wakes up the lodge-keeper and
after he lets down the bars we pixies around
to the stable. 1t looked more like an Episcopal
church than stable, and we didn't find any
horses inside, anyway, only seven different
kinds of gasolene carts. The stable-hands all
seemed to know Pinckney and to be proud
of it, but they SHE'D some at Rajah and
me.
This is part of little affair I'm managing
for Mrs. Toynbee," says Pinckney. Professor
McCabe and Rajah will stay here for day OF
two, strictly in cog, you know"
What Pinckney says seemed to be rules
and regulations there, SO Rajah and got the