A GIRAFFE'S MEMORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2516, 4 February 1887, Page 2

A GIRAFFE'S MEMORY.

-—•»— —«,. Tho funniest thing i oviir saw or hoard • of iu connoctin with the memory of animals happened one', year wlin 1 was out West-with a' travelling mef&erie. You'vo heard, of'course, how elophanta will remember an.insult, twenty yoars, Boine say longer. Well, this little iucident concerned a giraffe—and giraffes, you know, ure riot generally credited with much, BonßO anyway, to Bay nothing of j memory. But this ono showed a grout • deal of the other quality. We had got »s faras fat as Rock Wand, 111., where we had to cr»Bs the MiaßiEßiplbn an old fottyi % that btting before tho.'blp Govenirallft :■■:., bridge wsb built,there;.; £ • V: ■: - : ,'.' Everything was-all. right untilTjaiMne to this giraffe;. Ha. wouldn't go oriHbs: •' '■ terry. Coding, Bwearing, pnnistiing, beatim? did no.good, He .simply lay \ down.on the river bank and woold not budgo.. WhOel waß.watohin'g'himtho ferry made igdther trip., Whon she ■' ' carao back'upgeta'Mr Oiriffo as epry as \. you plosbo the first time I urged bun and / marched straight on to the %ry. Sevoral v ! people who had been on the other side '' of thg;ivcr were waiting tow what lucfc , : I had. Well, the boat was fifty feet or ,'" so from the down shore/whi'eu the giraffe. ■?• aappondd to turn • his :hoad towards tjie landing and see these people. He saw '■■'• a giraffe trumpet, and before I \?hat i'' ho was doing Jumped ovorjS riil into .•■'">•■■ the water. IttookfceclKe#oian ■ ; i hour to poll him out. ! . think waß the matter with that giraffe T "'•■ I discovered ItTwKuTtlie crowd • via -gathering-round the resoued animal helo'f ! sjira .that;the; pffo seemed to tVhenhV saw the yqujig,man near.;hira:he beJs»n ; ift 'tumble voilently, and '-.maae di>|pe>Jito • .ettprfs to break away. I q.i(estioiicd thfl. ; young m>n, and found, th,afc a; vow before 4 1 hp had crqssed on a wifh a ' ■ ■JR#k ,%ere waaVa g)raffo among ; 1 the animals on.ihe lower deck,, and hS •'■ I head had stretched away; up to the pas. s I aengerdeck of the ferry where the youna ; man wis sitting 4 with jomo friendß. As ' the giraffe's long.neckthad •como'twuHns ""'■' arouud in his4jrefition';he M beeh cruel • '• throw it down the V Ho doubt it wasthe aarnp; ciraffe l-'had mme muii jfj reco?nvsedhistome'nter;theinstant* Ms ; ''' cial Advertiser, '<;■?■' -:•' 1 •