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put it into her mouth, but she will not allow 

 anyone to feed her, and now has an ingenious 

 way of taking up the hay in the tip of her 

 trunk and throwing it in her mouth with a 

 dextrous jerk. Mr. George Bates, her trainer, 

 told me Gypsy has many privileges now which 

 the other elephants are not allowed on ac- 

 count of her age and infirmity. She was the 

 late Mr. James Bailey's favorite elephant. 



Columbia is the first elephant to have been 

 born in captivity and, although of the gentler 

 sex, has been provided with an iron chain, 

 enclosed in rubber, which continually encir- 

 cles her huge body. This is because on some 

 occasions she shows a good deal of vicious- 

 ness, and it is necessary to control her. Her 

 mother, Babe, stands close by. Babe's mate, 

 Mandarin, went "bad" on his first arrival at 

 this circus, and was so dangerous that he was 

 choked to death as the quickest and surest 

 method of preventing any dangerous accident. 



Mr. George Conklin, the manager of the 

 menagerie— who, by the way, is the first man 

 who ever drove a wagon drawn by a pair of 



