AN ELEPHANT PICKS A YOUNG WOMAN’S POCKET.

Dunstan Times, Issue 715, 31 December 1875, Page 3

AN ELEPHANT PICKS A YOUNG WOMAN’S POCKET.

o On Tuesday the entire population, except a blind woman and Rouse, went over to see Queen’s great show and have a nice time. A young lady from across the Jersey took her suitor and an opera glass. The young lady says she thought the performance real romantic until she stopped to see the elephant. She wore one of those pockets behind, in which, besides her handkerchief she had deposited an apple, a handful of peanuts, quarter of a pound of gumdrops, a little bottle of ammonia, and some other trifles, She and her swain, after admiring the com plexion of the huge beast, turned their backs upon him to watch the monkeys and the live kangaroo, and gaze into each other’s eyes ; to do this the better they leaned back against the rope which inclosed the stately monarch, who saw the apple protruding from the pocket of the unconscious fair one He hesitated a moment, and was lost to all sense of honor and self-respect, for with shuffling movement he emulated the example of our common mother, plucked and ate the fruit, returned to the pocket, and scooped out the gum drops and peanuts, with a sly t wink at his nephew, who was looking on with anxiety at the proceeding But in the last mouthful the majestic beast took in the ammonia bottle by mistake, the cork came out, and about an ounce of hartshorn ran down the throat of the greerly beast. This beverage is said to have a reviving and stimulating influence, and in tins case it proved its power, for a more revived elephant was never seen on earth. With a wild yell he grabbed the protuberance behind the kdv which had been the cause of his disaster ; she was ‘ pulled back’ some before, but as the exasperated trunk yanked at the bustle and accessories all former attempts at that style of wearing gear seemed pale and sickly ; everything was ‘ pulled back' until the young woman looked like the statue of Niobe in blue calico. The young man, with great presence of mind, shouted ‘ shoo,’ and the gentlemanly clerk of the elephant with a long prod, persuaded the beast to let up. But the fun was over for the day ; cake had no charms and soda no balm for these two souls, who walked home with but a single thought about wild animals. ,