Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-15
BY Advice Of a Lawyer.

become old and irritable and no longer
saw things with the freshness of other
days. lie was being most carefully
watched when the show arrived at
Clementsville.
The season had not been profitable
one for Jones & Jones. They had had
to offer 80 cents on the dollar to their
creditors ut the last three stands. and
when the exhibition ut 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 Il note of hand.
Ills claim was for $40, and he rushed
to see lawyer about it. Mr. Taylor
was the lawyer The two or three 9th
ers in town happened to be out of their
Offices. The great opportunity had
come ut last. The fourteen years of
waiting WAS to be repaid.
Your claim is good, and all we have
to do is to attach something" was the
lawyers announcement CAS- the ele-
plant is the biggest and most valuable
thing they have. we will attach HIM
The circus must have him. 1t won't
move OH without him. Your case will
be settled within an hour after we at
tacll him.
The elephant was attached. There
was lank and disconsolate looking
cassowary with the show, but he was
passed by. There was lonely and de-
jected 'lromedary, with it's lonely and
detected humps, but that attachment
was not for him. Abdul was the VIC
tim and was duly attached.
The constable saw the farmer cred
ftOr, and arrangements We're made to
take Abdul out to the farm. He fig
ure,l that he was going to get Il soft
thing. and. much to the astonishment
OF the circus folk, he went along in Il
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 lie adjourned when called.
That meant that it would he ultimately
decided in the farmers favor and that
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 bar
rels OF water to wet his throat. 1t
took an hour to bring it from the
house. Then he wanted quarter of
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 were still knocking
around the country. Night had not
yet come when he took fancy to a
certain beam in the barn and wrapped
his trunk around it and pulled it from
Its place and used it for baseball
bat. Then he tore out the manager and
used the slivers for toothpicks and
went to- bed happy. The farmer con-
suited the lawyer again, and the law
yer was primed with information. He
had been making elephants a study
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 4 Jones when the case was de-
cide,l against them, as it surely must
be. Just go right back home and give
that elephant whatever he wanted and
it would be all right"
Abdul had been chained on the open
floor of the barn. On the second day
OF his stay lie broke his chains and
pulled ton Of hay from the NOW and
walked over it until it was hardly fit
to bed the hogs with.
He wanted a 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 a
neat heap and set out on yoy-
age Of discovery. He discovered the
smokehouse and chicken coop and dali
ry house and upset them. He discover
ed the family we'll and yanked the
pump out by the roots and threw il
over the house. He discovered the