Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1913 — When the Peanuts Ran Out. [ARTICLE]

When the Peanuts Ran Out.

For two hours an old back countryman, who had never before seen an elephant, had been standing before a row of them in enrapt silence dealing out peanuts one at a time. When the last was gone and no more forthcoming, Jumbo, the largest elephant, reached over and removed the entertainer’s hat from his head to the top of a lion’s cage nearby. For the first time in two hours the old man expressed his emotions in words: “You old two-tailed Indianrubber nuisance you!” he exclaimed Indignantly. “If I knew which end your head was on, I’d slap your face.”