Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-25
DUNK, WISE ELEPHANT!
And Mabel, His Timorous Ad-
mirer, Visits Zoo.
GEORGE ALSO GOES ALONG
And the Pachyderm Goes Through
His PAGES for the Lady.
DROP OF WATER FALLS ON HER
And the Disagreeable Man Says, 81
Told You So''-And There
You Are.
GEORGE ALSO GOES ALONG
DROP OF WATER FALLS ON HER


Dunk has many friends and followers.
Dunk is a friend of all the boys.
And incidentally, Dunk lives at the Zoo.
Dunk's keeper says all the people who
come to see the elephant are known per-
sonally to the large pachyderm (pachy-
derm is dictionary for "elephantD.
Dunk's keeper respects Dunk quite
some. That's because Dunk once lifted
one keeper up in the air about fifteen feet
and then put him down real hard. So
hard was it, in fact, that there was a
funeral shortly afterward.
So Dunk's keeper. who sinks into almost
nonentity in the estimation Of the Sunday
morning callers at the elephant house.
believes Dunk can read the character. Of
faces of the crowd which stands looking
at him. He believes that If a man from
Cincinnati Cor from Alexandria, even),
should throw lighted cigar at Dunk
and Dunk should pick it up believing it
was peanut, Dunk would never forget
that mans face.
Should that man Of temerity travel all
over the country, should he grow a beard
and raise twins and become g teetotaler;
come as pure as the driven snow "a la
poetDy) should he loop-the-loop In every
characteristic which at one time marked
him for a deep and dark villain, and
should he. even forty years from now.
visit Dunk, he would find Dunk waiting
for just one chance to give him just one
punch in the place where his face ought
to be. He's a wise guy. that Dunk.
His Record for Hay.
than a livery stable outfit. He says the
song in Wang about the elephant who ate
all night and day and still cried for
more hay must have been written by an
elephant keeper, because it is true.
He says Dunk eats $50 tons of hay a
day. But this must, of course, be
trif1e of exaggeration. An elephant GER
tainly could not get away with all that
hay and all the peanuts he has to eat
also.
Dunk's keeper says if Dunk could get
some talcum powder he would be
SO tickled that he would want to sing.
So they do not get him any talcum pow
der.
But they do let him stand out in the
yard and snuff dust up into his trunk and
then blow it out upon his back. That is
what Dunk does most of the time when
he is not eating.
Last Sunday George and Mabel were
out TO see Dunk who stood backward,
away from his audience. lazily powderfng
his back.
Mabel had never seen Dunk before So
she was perfectly delighted with him.
She just danced up and down clinging to
Georges arm, saying:
Isn't he big? Isn't he big?''
And of course she wanted to know all
about him; wanted to know how old he
was and how big he was and if he al
ways did that talcum powder stunt and
whether he ever took a bath And when
George said he did. Mabel wanted to
know where.
Right there said the ever ready
George, pointing to the large lavatory
in which Dunk is washed and tidied up
for company.
Then Mabel wanted to know when he
was going to take a bath and whether he
used soap and how much. and what color
he is when bathed. and If he e er has his
toenails cut, and If he ever gets tired lust
standing there and doing nothing. and
what does he do when he gets mad, and
does he like his keeper. and is the keeper
a nice man and why does the keeper al
ways wear blue, and
Mabel Frightened OF.