The Jasper news., 1908-12-24


Playing "A Hot Time" on Mouth
Organ.
the hippo, and saving his life. and
right there in the mud. while the
hippos were eating their breakfast Of
cheap negroes, that husband told Pa
he felt SO under obligation to him that
he could have his 60 wives and wei.
come, and he would go out in the
jungle and corral another family.
Pa said he was much obliged but
he must decline, as in his own coun-
try no man was allowed to have more
than Is or 20 wives. But the terrible
scandal Pa had brought upon the ex-
pedition was settled out of court, and
Pa was reinstated in good standing
in our expedition.
1t takes hippo quite while to go
to sleep after eating a negro, as you
can imagine, they are SO indigestible,
and 1t was annoying to stand around
in the mud and wait, but we finally
got two specimens of the hippo into
the cages, and we killed two more
for food for the negroes, who like the
flavor of hippo meat, after the hippos
have been fattened on negroes.
On the way back to camp we sight
ed herd of elephants, and Pa said
he would go out and surround a
couple of them and drive them into
camp. Mr.. Hagenbach tried to rea-
son with Pa against the suicidal act.
in going alone into a herd of wild
elephants, but Pa said since his ex-
perlence with old Bolivar, the circus
elephant, he felt that he had mys-
terlous power over elephants that was
marvellous, and SO poor Pa went out
alone, promising to bring some ele-
plants into camp.
Well, he made good all right. We
went on to camp and got our hippos
put to bed, and fed the lions and
tigers, and we're Just sitting down to
our evening meal, when there was q
roaring sound of where Pa had sur
rounded the elephants, the air was
full of DUST and the ground trembled
and we could see the whole herd OF
about 40 wild elephants charging on
our camp, believing and making Z
| regular bedlam.
When the herd got pretty near US
we sll climbed trees, except the ne
gro husband and his wives, and they
took to the jungle.
Say. those animals did not do &
thing to our camp. They rushed ovel
the tents, laid down and rolled ovel
our supper which was spread out or
the ground, tipped over the cage:
containing the animals we had cap
tured, found the gasoline barrel ant
filled their trunks with gasoline and
squirted 1t all over the place. ant
rolled the gasoline ON the fire, ant
away the elephants went with gaso
line fire pouring out of eheir trunks
into the woods. believing, and whel
the dust and smoke cleared away, ant
| we climbed down out of the trees ant
righted up the cages, here came Pi
astride zebra, playing on moutl
organ, "There'll be hot time In tn
| old town tonight" which had fright
ened the elephants into a stampede.
Mr.. Hagenbach stopped Pas zebra
aid Pa said: Didn't you catch an!
of them? steered 'em right t
camp. and thought you fellows woul
head 'em of, and catch a few" q
never saw Mi. Hagenbach ma
before. He locked at Pa as thougl
he could eat him alive ande'said
"Well, old man, you have faisetf ith
duece on your watch, sure enough.
And then Pa complained because sur
| per was not ready. Gee. but Pa
| getting more gail all the time.
4 copyright 1908, by w. q. chapman-l
i copyright In Great Brittany