The Columbus journal., 1909-01-27

After an Hour Pa Compromised by
Giving Him Sixteen Dollars, His
Coat, Shirt and Pants.
wants a bottle of milk. and we cap
tured the little thing and started for
camp with it, but before we got in
sight of camp all the elephants in
Africa were after us crashing through
the timber and trumpeting like a
clenagerie.
Pa and a cowboy and some negroes
lifted the little elephant up into a
tree, and the whole herd surrounded
US. and we're going to tear down the
tree, when the camp was alarmed and
Hagenbach came out with all the men
and negroes on horseback, and they
drove the herd into a canyon, and built
a fence across the entrance, and there
We had about fifty elephants in the
strongest kind of a corral. and We
climbed down from the tree with the
baby elephant and took it to camp,
and put it in big bag that Pas air
ship was shipped in. and We are feed
ing the little animal on condensed
milk and dried apples.
We have got tame elephant that
plants, 10 teach them to be good. and
the next day Pa was ordered to ride
the tame elephant into the corral to
get the wild animals used to society.
Pa didn't want to go but he had
Dragged so much about the way he
handled elephants with the circus in
the States that he couldn't back out,
and SO they opened the bars and let
Pa and his tame elephant in, and
closed the bars.
think the manager thought that
would be the end Of Pa. and the men
all went back to camp figuring on
whether there woald be enough left
of Pa to bury or send home by ex-
press, or whether the elephants would
walk on Pa until he was a part of the
soil. In about an hour We saw white
spot on rock Above the canyon. way-
ing piece of shirt, and we watched
it with glasses. and soon We saw fat
man climbing down on the outside,
and after awhile Pa came sauntering
into camp, across the veldt, with his
coat on his arm, and his sleeves rolled
up like a canvaSman in show, sing
ing, "A Charge to Keep l Have" Pa
came up to the mess tent and asked if
lunch was not ready, and he was sur
rounded by the men and asked how
he got out alive. Pa said: We'll, there
is not much to tell. only when l got
into the corral the whole bunch made
a rush for me and my tame elephant.
l stood on my elephant and told them
10 lie down, and they got on their
knees, and then / made them walk
turkey for while. and march around.
and then they struck on doing tricks
and began to shove my elephant and
get saucy. so l stood up on my ele-
plants head and looked the wild ele-
plants in the eyes, and made them
form a pyramid until l could reach
tree that grew over the bank of the
canyon, and climbed out and slid down
as you saw me. There was, nothing to
it but nerve and Pa began to eat
corned zebra and bread as though he
was at Il restaurant
Now" says Pa, as he picked his
teeth with a thorn off a tree, ''to-mOr-
row We got to capture a mess of wild
African lions. right in their dens,
cause the gasoline has come by
freight, and the airship is mended, and
you can look out for strenuous ses-
sion, for found canyon where the
lions are thicker than prairie dogs in
Arizona" and Pa laid down for a lit
tie sleeping sickness. so I guess we
will have the time of our lives to-mor-
row and Pa has promised me a baby
lion for pet.
Copyright. 1905. by w. G. ChapmanJ
/ Copyright in Great Brittany