The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-14

racket that vas goin' on on the inside.
They KEEP haulin' till they got the box
opposite the partition. The lioness took
on scandalous. an the he one want
SLOW. He was dom his best to git out
rOaTin' an kavOrtin' round, an shakin
the box every jump "Nuttree." says
l, IF them two meet up, the lions goin
to git divorced so thorough that they'll
have to git him out with rakes If he
flies to her wiilin' arms, his name'll be
Ichabod Fuit. sure"
Wen, first off, they opend the door
Of the partition, where they planned to
put him; then they slid the box close
up to the front of it an got some lack
screws, an put EN- under the box, an
begun to twist EN- round. Then | see
their game When they got the box
up TO the partition they'd open a door,
an o course the iion'd have to go into
the cage. akespeare-poetry Teller
says that the plans o mice an men gifts
frequent tangled, an he might "a
stretched it to include lions. They KEEP
hiStin the box. an every time they'd
git the length o. the Jack screws they'd
block it up, turn down the Jacks. an
begin over. They didn't seem to me to
be over particular how they put the
blocks under, an every time they
histed. the box wabbled a little harder.
was willin' to see the rest o the show
from the back row an I went there. an
TOOK Nuttree with me. He didn't like
it, an he says;
From here can him not see an I
says, right, Nutty; an from there can
ne You not see, an l begun lookin' over
an the cages, carefully, an the ginral
plan o the beast house. fer it's ben al
lers my rule. when ] set into any game
with strangers. to know which door
opens on the street. an the shortest
way to get TO it-but I'd orter saw here
mat the door the box come in at
ketched on the outside. an one o. the
supers had locked the other, SOS to keen
out them that didn't have no invite.
When they got the box most high
enough they run shy o., blOckln' an 7
see they was goin to put some of 'em
: onWend, Std a layin' EN- PATHWAYS.
pushed a couple a directors i'm front of
US, keerless like. an 1 says: "Nutty.
has the ginral rest veness Of the proIy-
tariats extended itself into the reglar
lion movers2 Hev they struck These
dubs act TO me as If they was strike
breakers er scabs.
Before this" he says. have they not
any moved"
That's the way I sized 'sm I'd.
says l. AN I'll gamble they won't move
any after this one
At the fer end O the alley was big
cage, with little monkeys into il. that
looked good to me, an I edged round
the crowd till I was in line with il. an
I drsWed Nuttree with me Jest as We
got there the movers had lifted the box
most up. an they blocked. with the
blocks on end. an started TO untwist
Ter the last hiSte. when the lioneSs
turned loose fer fair. an the he one
uned in. | never heered such a racket
It was helFs oTchestry tunin' up-an'
the jack men got ratified. One of 'em
quit an the other KEEP untwistin'
which give the box slant. an when
the lion give an extry powerful jump
down it come, the door busted open. an
the monarch O. the jungle waltzed out.
That was the IiTst time we'd seen him.
Say. friend. he was biEEer'n the box. an
mostly teeth. claws an roar. Us fer
the monks, Nutty,' 1 wells. an ] starts
M the alley. I must q. stepped some.
fer when ] looked down from the top O.
the cage. Nuttree wasn't half way. The
lion was tskn' on dreadful. but there
was so many to git that he seemed
Confused-like an couldn't make 10
chico, 50 he set stili an reared.
The directors was all goin' different
ways They hadn't made no plans. an
Il was any port In a storm. The cfumb
any cage they came to. one of EN-
the one that might gladly advice have
tried the cage Of the riie Bengal. an I
never see a Teller git ondrssssd 50 quick.
The rile made Just one swipe, but il was
i good one. an he got everything. from