A NEW ART BEGUN 5 
ity came to do something a little better. A zebra was 
brought into the Establishment. I had been study- 
ing anatomy and I had learned the names of all the 
muscles and all the bones. When I saw the zebra I 
realized that here was an opportunity to do something 
good and I asked to make a plaster cast of the body. 
I had to do it in my own time and worked from supper 
until breakfast time, following out a few special ex- 
periments of my own in the process. Nevertheless, 
the zebra was handed out to be mounted in the old 
way and my casts were thrown on the dump. 
I stayed at this leading institution of taxidermy for 
four years and while I was there we stuffed animals 
for most of the museums in the country, for hunters 
and sportsmen, and various other kinds of people, 
including Barnum’s circus. The animal we stuffed 
for Barnum’s circus was the famous elephant Jumbo. 
We had to use a slightly different method for Jumbo, 
not only because of his size but because he had to be 
made rigid and strong enough to stand being carted 
around the country with the circus; for this old ele- 
phant served dead as well as alive to amuse and in- 
struct the public. As a matter of fact, he is still at 
it, for his skin on the steel-and-wood frame we made 
for it at Ward’s is at Tufts College and his skeleton 
is at the American Museum of Natural History. 
_ Between the time that I first went to Ward’s and 
my last job there, which was on Jumbo, there was an 
intermission which IJ spent in the taxidermy shop of 
John Wallace on North William Street in New York. 
T roomed in Brooklyn with Doctor Funk, of Funk & 
