New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-18

came with round top and put it up. The,
strung lot of side-show banners too IA III
lelil'llaue-Stands IN the shrubberv II =
hadn been Tor the Johnnie bows in hot c1otba,
sIT'Iin around you'd thought a real one-rinc
WaS0h-show had struck town. But saw. thai
IN oI clowns and bum bareback rider,
MAO papaS who could have given EN- q Fore.
paugh outfit every birthday
~ next morning | got the tip from
/ fmcNney To sneak Raiah out of the stabIe
ana over INTO the dressn' tent. The way
that old chaps eyes glistened when he ~
the banners and things was a wonder IJo go,
uld know a heap, that Raiah He was as
excited and anxious as a new chorus qirl AZ a
Ia" oPen4ng' but when l gave him the word
Just before the grand entry I got a peek
al lAc mouse, and II was a swell mob. san
IoIhs Jhat you II see at the Horse Show only
IneIe WASH no dollar-a-head push to rubber
al EN-, as they want on exhibition They
was Just out for fun, and guess they know
no" 10 nave 1t, seem that's their steady
Number four on the programme was ~,
Gown as; Mr. Lionel Pinckney Ogden Bruce,
with ms wonderfully 5fe-like elephant Raiab -
heard the barker givin' his song an dance
alouI the act and he got a great hand
linen Finckney goes on and the crowd
howls.
You see, he'd had loose canvas suit. like
paJanas, made for Raiah and stuffed out with
straw. 1t was painted to look something like
TIephant hide, but some of the straw had been
Ieit sticking through the seams With
Ralah se%ed inside OF this, he looked like a
rank imitation of himself
rake, fake" they yells at EN- as they
showed up. Who's playing the hind legs,
Lionel. and lot of things like that They
threw peanuts and apples at Raiah, and
generally enjoyed themselves
ihen all OF a sudden PinCknev pulls the
PuCherlng string, yanks off the padding, and
out walks old Rajah as clipper as Billy
seen a gang Of school-kids when the sIeigbt-
oi-hand man makes a pass over the egg in the
nat ana pulls out live rabbit, These folks
acted the same way They howlcd they
hee-haWed they jumped up and down on the
They'd been lookin' for the same old ele-
plant with two men inside, the good old
chestnut that they d been irwin to laugh
over Tor years, and when this philOpena was
sprung on EN- they were as tickled as a baby
with a observation-disclosures Ii wouldn't have
got more. n one laugh out Of a crowd of every
DAY folks. but that swell mob just went wild
over II. II was a new stunt, done special for
them by one Of their own crowd.
Mas Ilnckney It, Why he was the whole
snow Ihey kept him and RaIah in the ring
Tor half an hour, and they let loose every
time Ralah lifted his trunk or tapped his ears.
When he got EN- quiet Pincknev made a
speech. He said he was happy to say that
the grand door pTlZe. as announced on the
hand-blllS, had been drawn by Mrs. jeremiah
Ioynbee, and that Raiah was the prize
Would she take It with her, or have it
sent.
You've heard Of Mrs Jerry. She's a real
sport. She IS. She's the one that stirred up
all that fuss by takin' her tame panther down
70 Balleys Beach with her And Mrs Jerry
WASH goln' back on her reputation or missin
any tWo-page ads in the papers
Oh may send him. please" says Mrs.
Jerry.
Maybe they thought that was all a part
Of Ilnckney's fake. They didn't know how
hard wee tired 10 unload Raiah. We didn't
do any hngerln' around While the show
was goln. on We Sneaks out Of the back Of the
tent with RaIah and across to the stable. /
The rest was easy. He'd got so used to seem
me there that ! reckon he'd sized II up for
my regular hang-aut. So when We ties him up
last and slides out easy, one al a time, he never
mi-tr1l~te
Professor" saws Pincknev. 1t seems to |
me that this IS an excellent opportunity for Us
10 go away"
Its ali Of that" says J. and lets make it
a quick shift"
We did. Goggles shook US up some on the /
way down, but we hit Broadway IN time for
breakfast
Didn't happen to see Pi1ckney at the last
Horse Show. did YOU. Well, you'd never
known him for the same ambulance waiter
that dropped into the studio that dav. He's F.