CHAPTER X 



THE OLD UPTOWN AQUARIUM 



THE OLD UPTOWN AQUARIUM BABY ELEPHANT FROM JAVA 

 THE TROUBLES OF AN ARTIST WITH THE HAIRY ELEPHANTS 

 PUNISHING A REBELLIOUS MODEL THE BAD ELEPHANT'S 

 REVENGE HOW AN ELEPHANT LAUGHS THE CAMEL THAT 

 TRIED TO GET IN THE ARTIST'S LAP MURDEROUS TRICKS 

 OF OLD ELEPHANTS JUMBO, THE GOOD NATURED TREAT- 

 ING THE COMPLEXION OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT, AND THE 

 COSMETICS USED ON JUMBO. 



The old Aquarium which used to stand where 

 Herald Square is now was a most interesting place 

 and there were often things there which neither 

 could be called mermaids or fishes. At one time 

 they had a couple of little baby elephants from 

 somewhere in the neighborhood of Java. They 

 were advertised I believe as 



HAIRY ELEPHANTS 



or dwarf elephants. At any rate I went there to 

 make some sketches of them and the keeper kindly 

 furnished me with a chair inside the enclosure 

 where the little things were kept; he then went off 

 about his business, leaving me to my own devices. 

 I put the chair down in the straw; seating myself, 

 I began to work, but as usual when sketching ani- 

 mals my models did not choose to pose. The lit- 



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