17* WILD ANIMAL CELEBRITIES 



There was no accounting for it, no way of 

 arguing or reasoning with him. He was only 

 a dumb animal and a donkey at that, hut he 

 evidently had his own ways of doing things. 

 He would only "sing" in a stable or in the 

 Circus ring, and no persuasions ever induced 

 him to do anything else. 



I never saw this donkey and he is, I believe, 

 dead now, but he must have been an interest- 

 ing animal in many ways and is certainly the 

 only donkey I have ever heard of who would 

 even make any noise at all when he was told 

 to do so, so I think in a way he was certainly 

 a celebrity. 



