The Washington herald., 1915-10-10

easy it is to say. Stop that elephant?
and how difficult in the doing!
There is one man in our party who
shouts, Put out the fire, so the ele-
phant will not see it, and then the
Western man says, putting another
armful of wood upon the fire, 4 don't
think he will be afraid if he does.
which of course was not what the
other fellow meant.
The fire blazed up brightly, and the
elephant he turn around and look at
us He had the ears standing out from
his head, and his little small eyes are
sparks of fire. His trunk he points
at us. IF that was a double-barreled
shotgun says the Western man, he
would blow us off the face of the
earth,' and then he put his hand to
his i::outh and yelled, so, boss; so,
boss! Good old Ellie! Spot yourself.
and sit on the front stoop.' and that
young Irishman, he say, Gosh! Just
imagine he says to the fellow who
is most afraid, old cock-ear over
there coming over and taking your hat
now' and the fellow he cried loud
at the thought.
"And then there come slam from
the window. The farmer has fired
gun at the elephant. That elephant
kic.5 with one hind leg, and then he
is mad With the head he pushes the
door in, then we hear him trying to go
upstairs, which is like the bridge-tlc
stairs creak and crackle.
However, that farmer man and the
lady farmer, they think he is coming,
and so with wild shrieks they precipi-
tate themselves from the windows on
the piazza and beg of us to come and
help them.
"'Come over here, and we will help
you,' says the Irishman, but you have
not trained your elephant proper. I
do not think he likes strangers. Upon
which the man farmer says, We are
afraid and the Westerner replies that
he speaks the truth.
And there is the terrible noise
downstairs in the house, and the wom
an calls to us, What is he always
meaning the elephant, doing now"
and the Irishman says, You are near
er to him.
Never have | heard such noise
come out of house The lady she
listen, and when we hear a terrible
crash she says, Now he is in the pam
try. The dishes are gone and when
we hear wangity, wangity, crash!
she says. There goes them there tin
pans!
"The lady knows the house so well
she can tell what pieces of furniture it
is that is being demolished. When
comes funny kind OF squeak, she ex-
claims, oh, law, Mas haircloth sofar
do not know whether he has sat
down on it or not, but when we found
the haircloth sofa it looked as though
he had. But this is later.
"By and by he is tired of playing in
the house and wishes to come out
doors again. The Western man he
gets much wood on the fire, and he
explains to me that that is safe, that
the elephant does not like FIRE. So,
| by this, we have FIRE that lights up the
country, and we see figures of men
who know that the elephant has ar
| rived but don't wish to catch him,
and at sometimes there comes a call,
There he is' and you hear much
scamping of feet.
| well, out comes the elephant, and
he looks at our fire, but suspic;ously.
| The Western man, who has no wife's
sisters cousin who knows about elc-
plants, has tell me the truth. He
does not like the fire, but he comes
over near the horses, and those
horses squeal and yell, and act like
small children. The elephant, he re-
CARDS them mildly, and walks away
to the wagons.
Now. on the back of a wagon, very
firmly tied. is the piano of my wife
The elephant, with the finger and
thumb on the end of his nose, ex-
amines. Then he wishes to see what
is inside. Ia! and that strong rope is
broke. Another pull, and that thick
cloth which is over the piano is torn
like it is nothing but spiders web
bing. Then >the piano lose his bal
ance and fall on the elephants toe.
Then the elephant - angry, and he
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