The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29

But they couldn't see it. We argued
with about fifty horny-handed pillow
pushers, showin' 'em how Rajah could
pull moren a string of oxen a block
long, and could be let out for stump
digging in summer, or as a SnOwplOW
in winter. We tried liverymen, store
keepers, summer cottagers; but the
nearest we came to making a sale was
to a brewer who'd just built a new
house with red and yellow fancy wood
work all over the front of it. He thought
Rajah might do for a lawn ornament and
make himself useful as a fountain during
dry spells, but when he noticed that RAJ
iah didn't have any tusks ne said it was
all off He knew where he could buy a
whole cast-iron menagerie. with all the
frilIs thrown in, at half the price.
And we want holding Rajah at any
swell figure. He was on. the bargain
counter when the sale began. Every day
was 30 per cent clearance with lis. We
We're closing out our line of elephants on
account of retiring from the business. and
Rajah was a remnant.
But they wouldn't buy. Generally they
threatened to set the dogs on us. 1t was
worse than trying to sell a cargo of fur
OveTcoats in Panama In time it began
TO leak through into our heads that Ra-
JAN want 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 got away
with his bale of hay as regular as a
Rialto hamfatter Taidin' the free lunch.
Is it a life sentence, Pinckney2' says
|. Is this twin fOster-bTother act to a
miSlaid elephant to be d continuous per-
Torrance? Ii il is we'd better hit the
circuit regular and draw our dough on
salary day For me, I'm sick of havin'
folks act like We was a quarantine sta
ton. Let's anchor Rajah to something
solid and sllidoO.
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 a friend of his in Newport to run
down to the big circus headquarters and
jolly them into sending an elephant-train-
er up TO us
"A trainer will know how to coax Ra-
iah off SAYS he. ''and perhaps he viii
take him as a gift
It's easy money" says l.
But il wasn't. That duck at Newport
sends back a message that covers four
he was TO get track on Pinckney again
and how he must come down right away.
Oh. they wanted Pinckney bad. 1t was
like the tap of the bell for a twenty
round go with the referee missin' Seems
that Mrs Jerry TOynbee was tryin' to
pull off one of those backyard affairs
that win newspaper space-some kind of
d fool amateur circus-and they'd got TO
have Pinckney there to manage it or the
thing would fail. AS for the elephant
trainer. he'd forgot that.
by joVe,' said Pinckney, real sassy
like
That's DRAWN it mild says L
Would you like the loan of few able
bodied cuss-WOrds2 -
But I have an idea says Pinckney.
'Handcuf it." says | its a case of
breakn' and enterin'."
But he didn't have so much loft-TOOm
to let, after all His first move was 10
hunt uD d railroad station and charter
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 Rajah? ?" says L
But Rajah knew all about riding in box
cars. He walked up the plank after us
just like we was pair of NOahs. Cog
giles was sent off over the road with
the cart, all by his lonesome.
- I've Travelled good deal with real
sports. and once I came back from St
Louis with the delegates to a national
convention. but this was my first trip
i'm animal car It wasn't so bad.
though. and il WAS all over by daylight
next morning There wasn't anyone in
sight but milkmen and bakers boys a.
we drove down Bellevue avenue, with
2jah griDDin the rear axle of our cab
/ don't know how he felt about buttin'
into Newport society at that time OF
day. but / looked for cop to pinch us
as second story men.
We fetches ND at the SWEETEST kind OF
a ranch you ever saw, iron gates to il
like a storage warehouse. and behind that
trees ard bushes and lawn. like a slice
cut of Central park. Pinckney wakes VI
the lodge keeper and after he lets down
the bars we pixies around to the stable
Ii looked more like an Episcopal church
than a stable and we didn't find any
horses inside. anyway. only seven diff
ferent kinds of gasoline carts. The sta
BILE hands all seemed to know Pinckney
and to be proud of it, but they SHE'D
some at Raiah and me.
This is part of a little affair m man.
aging for Mrs. Toynbee." says Pinckney
Professor McCabe and Rajah will stay
here for a day or two strictly incog. You
know.
What Pinckney says seemed to be rules
and regulations there. so Raiah and / got
the glad hand after that And for a sta
BILE visit it was the best that ever hap
pened. I've stopped at lots of twO-dOlaT
houses that would have looked like Bow
cry lodgings alongside of that stable
And one of the boys thought ne could
handle the mitts some. Yes. that incOg