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estihg talk with him. He is a small man, 

 wiry and nervous, and a great talker; but no 

 matter what different subject one starts, he 

 invariably comes round to the one favorite 

 subject, "Jumbo," on which he is never tired 

 of talking. 



"I seen him last night as plain as plain," 

 he told me the last time I was talking to him. 

 "He comes to me every night now, Jumbo 

 do, and I am always thinking on him, and I 

 'speet he knows it." 



By which it will be seen that Scott is be- 

 ginning to show his years. He is quite an 

 old man now and very feeble. He has just 

 one or two gentle animals to take care of and 

 this year, when the Barnum and Bailey 

 Circus came to New York to start its summer 

 season, Matthew Scott was left in winter 

 quarters, as it was considered that he was 

 not now fit to bear the hardships and tiring 

 journeys on the road. 



Another interesting elephant in this same 

 show is Gypsy, the oldest elephant there. Her 

 trunk is paralyzed, so that she is unable to 



