140 THE ART 0? TRAIXINO ANIMALS. 



is in some cases used by trainers as an inducement or reward for 

 performing. Cake, candy, and like treats are also powerful in- 

 centives with bears. A writer in one of the magazines describes 

 a huge bear whose acquaintance he made in New Orleans, belong- 

 ing to a Spaniard who kept a public house m the vicinity of that 



PERFORMING BEARS. 



city. This bear had contracted so great a liking for whiskey 

 and sugar, that he became troublesome unless he had his liquor 

 and his spre?, and no one could mistake the cause of his conduct 

 when " fuddled." He rolled from side to side, leered ridiculous- 

 ly and smiled foolishly, and was loving and savage by turns. 

 He would wrap his great paw around the tumbler containing 

 ^' the poison," go through the ceremony of touching glasses with 



BEAR AND PONY ACT. 



the gentleman who paid for the treat, and then pour the contents 

 down his capacious throat with a gusto that made old topers 

 " love that animal like one of themselves." 



Buffaloes have also been drafted into the service of the circus, 

 but their performances are in no way remarkable — except, per- 

 haps, for the very absence of anything remarkable. The fierce 

 monster who, with steaming nostrils and flaming eyes, is repre- 



