122 THE MINDS AND MANNERS 



She deserved a vast beating with canes; but we gave her no 

 punishment whatever. It would have served no good purpose. 



During the interval we telephoned to Coney Island, and 

 asked Dick Richards, the former keeper of Alice, to come and 

 reason with her. Promptly he came, — and he is still guiding 

 as best he can the checkered destinies of that erring female. 



When Alice was unwound and permitted to arise, — with cer- 

 tain limitations as to her progress through the world, — it was 

 evident that she was in a chastened mood. She quietly 

 marched to her quarters at the Antelope House, and there we 

 interned her. But that was not all of Alice. Very soon we 

 had to move her to the completed Elephant House, half a mile 

 away. Keeper Richards said that two or three times she had 

 bolted into buildings at Luna Park; so we prepared to overcome 

 her idiosyncrasies by a combination of force and strategy. I 

 had the men procure a strong rope about one hundred feet long, 

 in the middle of which I had them fix a very nice steel hook, 

 large enough to hook suddenly around a post or a tree. 



One end of that rope we tied to the left foot of Charming 

 Alice, and the remainder of the rope was carried out at full 

 length in front of her. 



Willingly enough she started from the Antelope House, and 

 Richards led her about three hundred feet. Then she stopped, 

 and disregarding all advice and hooks, started to come about, 

 to return to the Antelope House. Quickly the anchor was 

 hooked around the nearest fence post, and Alice fetched up 

 against a force stronger than herself. She was greatly annoyed, 

 but in a few minutes decided to go on. 



Another lap of two hundred feet, and the same act was re- 

 peated, without the slightest variation. 



This process continued for nearly half a mile. By that time 

 we were opposite the Elk House and Alice had become wild with 

 baffled rage. She tried hard to smash fences and uproot trees. 



At last she stood still and refused to move another foot; and 

 then we played our ace of trumps. 



