Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1897 — AN ELEPHANT STORY. [ARTICLE]

AN ELEPHANT STORY.

Once -here was a man who.sold produce •>o a traveling circus. The circu•> stayed ar his town lor a week, mid us thoprop/t etor cuulu not pay ioi tue produce, he gwvo a mortgage on tue elephant. When/h. could not m et tue bill the produce /ui•r foreclosed on tn« elephant, autljpro•eeueu to le.nl him homo by a ul tue villagers gathered about, s_i asked him what he was going to do With the eleppuui, ami where he was going to put him. lie replitd that liu should pul him in Inc chicken-coop and keep inm. Now the chicken-coop was pretty big.for a chicken coop, ami even compared lavora bly with the house ami burn; but whin the elephant stood by its side its proportions assumed a changed aspect, ana the elephant wouiiiu’. lit. .lx. e elephant starycd uooui in the y.rd and utu up produce and everything else, ioi a ween; and then the bolder oi the i.ewly acquired luxury Sent worn to the funner owuei, "Como and gel your elephant at once. 1 liuvo a family to support. , It isn't always such an easy matter to get rid oi an elephant; and when you have acco umouatiouH 1 r a cnickuu only, it isn t wise to invito an elephant io Uwuil with you. Ami yet wo all no this con stautly . i'Tom “nlophants 1 hat Burden ce, in Gcmotest’s magazine ror August.