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he saw him loping along he would lay the bone 
in his path and disappear. The spaniel always 
made for the bone, but the yellow dog, just as 
he was about to grab it, would dart from his 
hiding place, and seizing it, run off with it. This 
happened over and over again, but the high-bred 
spaniel never tumbled to the joke. 
You may laugh if you like, but I once saw a 
jackass with a sense of humor. No, I’m not 
fooling; I mean a real jackass. When I was 
at school as a boy in a country town the school¬ 
master on a fine day would bring the pupils into 
the yard, where we played during recess for a 
singing lesson. He started them singing “Home 
Sweet Home” one day in parts. Part of the 
yard was cut out of a hill, and this was faced 
with a stone wall, forming one of the boundaries 
of the yard high enough to form a parapet a 
few feet higher than the hill. Behind the para¬ 
pet this particular jackass stood while we were 
singing, his neck craned over and his ears cocked 
as "if he were listening to the music. The boys 
had hard work to keep straight faces when they 
looked at him. After the class finished singing 
there was quiet for a minute and the ass, open¬ 
ing his mouth, gave a loud “Hee-haw” and gal¬ 
loped away. If that wasn’t a joke I’m a sinner. 
—Tit-Bits. 
ORPHAN SQUIRRELS. 
The two orphan squirrels living under the 
bandstand in Military Park are getting along 
so well that they have asserted their rights in 
an unexpected manner, namely, by appropriat¬ 
ing the dinner of one of the Newark Shade Tree 
employees, leaving for his midday meal nothing 
but the paper in which the viands were wrapped. 
Now the other employees are joking with him 
and saying that he probably had a lunch of 
mixed nuts. 
There were three orphan squirrels in the 
park some time ago, it will be recalled, says the 
Call. They were children of one Mrs. Lizzie 
Squirrel, late of Lincoln Park, and who met a 
tragic death by being run over while transfer¬ 
ring her family across the' street to pastures 
new. Then the baby squirrels were taken to 
the bandstand in Military Park, where they 
lived contentedly in a cage until they outgrew 
it After this they were allowed to run about 
the place at will. 
At the time of the mother’s death one of the 
three had his tail shortened, and he was ac¬ 
cordingly dubbed “Stub Tail.'’ Being a bob- 
tail squirrel did not annoy this animal in the 
least, though even the casual observer was 
wont to admit that this squirrel was not so 
handsome as his playmates. Sometimes such 
remarks made “Stub Tail” feel rather sad, but 
as there is no medicine warranted to grow a 
new tail, he had to make the best of matters. 
He would often wish that only the hair on his 
tail had been torn off, for then he felt sure the 
keepers could have used a hair restorer that 
would have made his personal appearance as 
attractive as the other two. Perhaps it was 
this feeling, coupled with the pain of having a 
maimed tail, that finally resulted in “Stub’s” 
death. 
However, it is probable that two bad falls 
that the squirrel met with hastened his demise. 
Nobody could quite explain why he was not as 
agile as his companions. One of the workmen 
thought that the squirrel might be in need of a 
tail to balance himself. But this logic didn’t 
appeal to generous citizens, so no effort to ob¬ 
tain an artificial tail was made. 
The two remaining squirrels are as happy as 
they can be after losing a brother squirrel. 
“Bess” and Bushy Tail” are their names. They 
romp and play about the space under the band¬ 
stand at will, seldom stopping except for a nap 
or to obtain a nut from the hand of one of the 
Shade Tree employees. 
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