The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-04-30
BY Advice of a Lawyer.

/ ne circus ana menagerie OF Jones "
Jones was coming that way. The
greater part of its menagerie consisted
of the elephant Abdul, and Abdul had
become old and irritable and no longer
saw things with the freshness of other
days. He was being most carefully
watched when the show arrived at
Clementsville
The season had not been a profita BILE
one for Jones & Jones. They had had
to offer 80 cents on the dollar to their
creditors at the last three stands, and
when the exhibition at Clementsville
was over they could not pay certain
farmers for oats. hay and straw. One
of the farmers, and the largest cred
itor, refused to take note of hand
His claim was for $40, and he rushed
to see a lawyer about it. Mr.. Taylor
was the lawyer. The two or three 9th
ers in town happened to be out of theil
Offices. The great opportunity had
come at last. The fourteen years OF
waiting WIS 10 DE repaid.
Your claim is good and all we have
to do is to attach something" was the
lawyers announcement "As the elc-
plant is the biggest and most vaua Bile
thing they have. we will attach him
The circus must have him 1t won't
move on without him Your case will
be settled within an hour after we at
zach him"
The elephant was attached There
was lank and disconsolate looking
cassowary with the show, but he was
passed by. There was lonely aud de
jected dromedary, with its lonely ana
detected humps, but that attachment
was not for him. Abdul was the vie
tim and was duly attached
The constable saw the farmer cred
itor, and arrangements were made to
take Abdul out to the farm. lie fig
ured that he was going to get soft
thing, and, much to the astonishment
of the circus folk, he went along in
contented manner and finally brought
up in the farmers barn. Then the real
history of the case began. Jones &
Jones left town with smiles on their
faces. That meant that the suit would
have to be adjourned when called.
That meant that it would be ultimately
decided in the farmers favor and thai
he would find himself with an elephant
on his hands. He found that out even
within the first hour.
Abdul wanted from three to five par
rels of water to wet his throat. Il
took an hour to bring it from the
house. Then he wanted a quarter of
a ton of the best hay to eat and the
same amount to toy with as he stood
up to mediate and feel sorry for those
elephants that We're still knocking
around the country. Night had moi
yet come when he took fancy to
certain beam in the barn and wrapped
his trunk around 1t and pulled it from
its place and used it for a baseball
bat. Then he tore out the manger and
went to bed happy. The farmer con
suited the lawyer again, and the law
yer was primed with information. u
had been making elephants stCGy
for the last four hours.
Yes, all the cost of Adults keep and
all the damage he did while in the
hands of the law would be assessed on
Jones & Jones when the case was de-
cided against them, as it surely must
be. Just so right back home and give
that elephant whatever he wanted anG
it would be all right"
Abdul had been chained on the open
floor of the barn On the second day
of his stay he broke his chains ana
pulled a ton of hay from the NOW and
walked over it until it was hardly fiji
to bed the hogs with.
He wanted small drink, and when
the farmer cut him off with five bar
rels of water he trumpeted until he
scared farmers for two miles around
and then broke up the tanning mill,
the corn shelter and some stray boards
and beams. The lawyer was notified.
and he came riding out to the farm on
a bike to say:
Very irregular and improper on the
part of Abdul, but of course Jones &
Jones will settle. They must settle.
They must have him with their show
On the third day Abdul demanded
seven barrels of water, half ton of
hay and most of the pumpkins grow
ing on the farm and then broke down
the doors and piled the fragments in
neat heap and set out on vcy-
age of discovery. He discovered the
smokehouse and chicken coop and Gai-
ry house and upset them. He discover
ed the family well and yanked the
pump out by the roots and threw it
over the house. He discovered the
house itself and smashed all the win
dows and doors. Then he passed into
the orchard and pulled up twenty-one
big apple trees to show that he was
no buffer. He had leveled forty rods