Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — TYRANT GOT A TROUNCING. [ARTICLE]

TYRANT GOT A TROUNCING.

Hanghty Ruck Paid Dearly for Hlc - Polly When Mo Sited Hl# Antlers. “Of course animals can talk,” said John Lover, the zookeeper. He pointed toward a herd of deer. “Do you see that buck,” lieTsaid, “the tall one that limps a little? Well, do you know what caused the buck to limp? Why, It was the ability to talk and reason that his mates have. “He had no limp when he first came here. He walked with the elastic gait of a pretty girl. He was very strong and powerful, and he abused his strength. He jabbed those long antlers of his Into every other buck in the yard. Because he was stronger than the others he tyrannized over them. They hated him for this, naturally, but he didn’t care. He didn’t seem to care for anything but the esteem of the lady deen He thought that the more he knocked the other bucks about the more the ladles would admire him, and, I hate to say it, he thought right. He was adored by every lady deer In the place. “But his brothers hated him. They kept to themselves and they were always muttering together. He Jabbed them, though, as much as ever, caring nothing for their muflied oaths. And finally the season of horn-shedding came. That was the season for which the weaker bucks had been waiting. Our powerful friend had no sooner lost his antlers than the others made one concerted rush upon him and down he went. He tried to fight, but, u6armed, he could do nothing. For a minute or two he was buffeted about terribly. Then a couple of keepers hopped the fence and drove his assailants off. He got up bleeding, and when he walked lie limped. He has limped ever since. He has been humbler and gentler ever since. And the ladies, for some reason or other, have despised him ever since. “This story teaches us, “the keeper ended, “that animals can talk and reason pretty much the same as we can.” —Philadelphia Record.