The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-14
Will Remain at the Zoo
After Making Final
Trip Today
PUSHES BOX CAR
OUT OF HER PATH
Poses With Children for Pictures and
Then Tries to Play Joke on
Keeper-Little Ones Learn
TO Call Her

| Positively and absolutely Miss
Fancy" will be housed in her new home
at the Avondale zoo today This was
the announcement of Park Keeper Will
hanson last night and 1t was hailed
with delight by both Miss Fancy" and
Curly" Miss Fancy is not displeascd
with her quarters at the Peerless Lum-
Der plant but. of course, everyone likes
to be in ones own home, where there
will be no danger of imposing upon
| good nature.
The new home OF Miss Fancy is
only temporary structure and will be
replaced by a more pretentious resi-
dence Just as soon as tho city en-
gineer can get the plans drawn for a
building sufficient to accommodate all
the animals at the zoo.
Will Be Home Sunday
Miss Fancy" will be "at home" to
the children of Birmingham all day
Sunday and there is no doubt that
| thousands will make party calls. She
Will be at the zoo this afternoon, 90
Curly" says. and he hopes to keep her
there from this time forward
Nutn SHt started IOT IHe zoo yes
terday afternoon Miss Fancy" en-
! countered a box car at the entrance
of the Peerless Lumber company's
plant. She looked it over calmly and
then literally walked into it, pushing
1t down the track a sufficient distance
to give her a good leeway to make the
passage over the bridge. And it ap-
peared TO he the easiest thing imagi-
nable. She did not strain a muscle and
walked on without any undue pants"
The children swarmed about Miss
Fancy" yesterday even more than they
did on the previous day. Many of them
are getting to know her and treat her
as though she were a playmate She is
| rapidly slipping into a state of mem
delaney because of the children petting
and pampering her so much. The lit
tie ones were thronged about her yes
terday three deep and she waved her
trunk in front OF each of the liddies
in manner truly supplicating.
DispOses of Peanuts Quickly
SHE wanted peanuts and there were
but few in the crowd. One or two OF
the children had a bag, however, and
| Miss Fancy kept her trunk in front
of the little chaps with great persist
ance. She was not satisfied with one or
two peanuts, either She waited until
she had a good trunkful before shoot
ing them up into her capacious mouth.
The peanuts could not, in the nature
of things, last long at the rate they
were being disposed of and soon Miss
Fancy was eating grass again. The
4 i, -. 4
came to feeding grass to the elephant
and all of them had a hand In It,
Someone had camera a the zoo
| yesterday and il was suggested that n
photo of the l0iddies and elephant be
! taken. Miss Fancy" was not averse
and she moseyed up to the money cage
C'Louie" retired, too), and laid herself
down on the gravel. The little ones
crawled up on her back and gathered
around her in mass and the man,with
the camera got "a good view of the
bunch. She then went down to the
spring with a coterie OF devoted ad-
mirers following after and posed for
another picture. After this the kiddies
strung out in procession with Miss
Fancy" as leader and still another pic
ture was taken.
Tries to Duck Keeper
! Curly" was anxious to have a view
| made of her in the water and Miss
Fancy" waded into the pool. She got
out in the middle, where the water was
about knee-deep to her, and became
obsessed with a notion to duck her
keeper. She evidently thought it would
be very good Joke to throw him off
| in the water, but he hung on like
/ grim death and finally she desisted He
| told her to lie down and she did So
! he scrambling to keep on top all the
while She stretched her full length In
the water and half her head was sub
merged. The photographer worked fast.
| however, and she was soon on her feet
again, and Curly placed himself on
the dry side of her head in order to
keep his clothes dry.
! After ali the pictures had been
snapped Miss Fancy" was permitted
/ to crop grass. When Curly" wanted
I her 10 come 10 him lie would cry out
| "Hedabootha" and the lady would
turn and come in the direction OF the
] sound. The children soon took up the
| cry and nearly every "kid" on tile
grounds called "Hedabootha." when he
had something to give to the pet. When
Curly wants her to stand still he
says "Jaetw in a sharp tone and she
stands instantly. The little ones at the
/ zoo yesterday quickly caught up the
| Indian words and when Miss Fancy
| got too close would cry out the mystic
word and she would stand until they
had cleared the way.