St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-06-27

Nero, the monarch OF the Abyssinian
wild, for he hates and breads his roar
Roar, Murph.'
But Nero, in desperation to escape
flea. began to Chamber to his hind
legs, and lib saw the move just in
time to jump to the bars and smite
him on the nose.
Damn ye!' mumbled Nero.
"'By all the saints! it sounded as
though he spoke!' gasped a little,
dried-up senorita.
'Ahem! His long association with
men has given his hoarse growl and
almost human quality, said lib, his
face going bit white. Or maybe it's
because of the men he has eaten.
Down, you devil! down. he cried,
jumping to the hyena's cage and
striking him with his cane to distract
their attention. Reynolds was lying
quiescent at the time, and at the blow
promptly raised his head in amaze
ment. 'Snarl!' Kissed lib, in English,
and Reynolds made good with a long
drawn boot that sounded like barn
owl suffering from diphtheria.
"'These idiots will see their finish
yet, Billy, cried lib to me, in disgust.
It's them to the salty brine all right,
I guess.
This caused the quartet to overdo
it as they attempted to cinch freedom
by cunning acting. None of them had
ever read nature stories, however, and
only Tbs ready cane and warning
Back! back! Not too near!'-saved
the day. Where can approach with
impunity,' he explained, turning easily
to the alcalde, you would feel their
cruel fangs. All, bite, would you?
This to the bear, who was lying per-
fectly quiet, and lib gave him a poke
that brought cloud of dust from his
tanks, whereat he raised his paw to
straighten his head, that now was at
right angles with all the laws of ma
ture.
Behold the lion about to spring!
shrieked lib, thrusting into the ribs
of the king of the forest and thus
bringing him into a more reasonable
posture.
"'Fer tn love iv-o-o-o-gh!' spoke
and snarled Murphy, in his rich
brogue.
Wonderful gasped the alcalde
and his followers.
But I never heard a lion use such
a delightful Irish accent before or
since in giving his howl of rage.
"tNow we come to the Royal Ben
gal tiger, bought by me from the sui
tan of Skowhegan for $10,000,' ratified
lib, rapidly, drawing his auditors to
the second bin. To his horror he
found the royal stretched out on his
stomach, legs straight behind, while
the head, turned upside down, stared
complacently at the top of the cage
Notice the wonderful elasticity of his
k,'-and snap! lib had reached
in and turned the head-piece into
place. It simply swept 'em off their
feet, sir It didn't need a naturalist
sharp to detect that the tiger was alb
normal in some respects.
Thanks, mate, groWled Weisman.
The dust
But the lion and the hyena prompt
ly came to the rescue and drowned
the visitors exclamation of wonder in
series of prolonged yells that put
crimps in my tympanums even out at
the entrance.
tAh, he purrs senors. He purrs,
senoritas.-Purr, Weisman. At last
he is in good humor,' cried lib. Then
in soto English: Group your legs, you
would-be suicide! Cluster yourself!
It's no use, Billy cried lib to me. I
would have saved them IL could, but
they won't have 1t SO; and all the
time he was pointing dramatically at
tho bear. Kindly throw something at
Murph. He's about to stand up I
tossed a tent-peg, that didn't do the
harp u bit Of good, and his muttered
curse was only drowned by Tbs adj
dressing the bear.
We'll, sir, it was the most sweaty
15 minutes ! ever put in. You see, If
the game, was discovered. we were in
as bad box as the fugitives. And
when the sight-seers began to file out
felt as limp as rag.
81 shall come again when the whole
menagerie is here declared the al
calde, on leaving. Wonderful and
marvellous
Scene first and curtain painted
lib, closing the tent-daps leisurely,
while showed bottles and fodder to
the animals. In three seconds their
disguised faces were slipped free from
the head-pieces and were. busy with
food and drink.
Then we held council of war and
decided We would leave Immediately