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ZENOBIA'S INFIDELITY.
By H. C. Banner.
Dr. Tibbet stood on the porch of Mrs. Pennypepper's boarding-house, and looked up and down the  6 Point
deserted Main Street of Sagawaug with a contented smile, the while he buttoned his driving-gloves.  Poster
The little doctor had good cause to be content with himself and with everything else--with his  Do Vinne,
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attire, and with the world in general. He could not but be content with Sagawaug, for there never  $29.00.
was a prettier country town. The Doctor looked across the street and picked out the very house
that he proposed to buy when the one remaining desire of his soul was gratified. It was a house
with a hip-roof and with a long graden running down to the river. There wa no one in the house
to-day, but there was no one in any of the houses. Not even a pair of round bare arms was visible
among the clothes that waved in the August breeze in every back yard. It was circus day in Sag-
awaug. The Doctor was climbing Into his gig when a yell startled him. A freckled boy with saucer
eyes dashed around the corner. "DoctorI" he gasped, "come quickI The circus got a-fire an' the
trick elephant's most roasted I" "Don't be silly, Johnny," said the Doctor reprovingly. "Hope
to die--Honest Injun--cross my breastI" said the boy. The Doctor knew the sacredness of this
juvenile oath. "Get in here with me," he said, "and if I find you're trying to be funny, I'll drop
you in the river." As they drove toward the outskirts of the town, Johnny told his tale. "Now,"
he began, "the folks was all out of the tent after the show was over, and one of the circus men, he
went to the oil barrel in the green wagon with Dan'l In the Lion's Den onto the outside of it an' he
took in a candle an' left It there, and fust thing the barrel busted, an' he wasn't hurted a bit, but
the trick elephant she was burned awful, an' the ring-tailed baboon he was so       8 Point
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scared he had a fit. Say did you know baboons had fits?"    When they reach-      Do Vinne,
ed the circus-grounds, they found a crowd around a small side-show tent. A       132A 540a
strong odor of burnt leather confirmed Johnny's story. Dr. Tibbitt pushed           $22.50.
his way through the throng, and gazed upon the huge beast lying on her side
on the grass, her broad shoulder charred and quivering. Her bulk expanded
and contracted with spasms of agony, and from time to time she uttered a
moaning sound. On her head was a structure of red cloth, about the size of a
bushel basket, apparently intended to look like a British soldier's forage cap.
This was secured by a strap that went under her chin--if an elephant has a
chin. This scarlet cheese-box every now and then slipped down over her eye,
and the faithful animal patiently, in all her anguish, adjusted it with her pre-
hensile trunk. By her side stood her keeper and the proprietor of the show, a
large man with a dyed moustache, a wrinkled face, and hair oiled and frizzed.
These two bewailed their loss alternately. "The boss elephant in the busi-
nessl" cried the showman.         "Barnum     never had no trick elephant          10 Point
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like Zenobia, and them     lynes and Dan'I was painted in new        before I     Devinne,
took the road this season.       Oh, there's been a hoodoo on me since I        100A 390a
showed against the Sunday-school picnic!"            ,That there elephant's         $18.50.
been like my own child," groaned the keeper, "or my own wife, I may
say.   I've slep' alongside of her every night for fourteen damn years."
The Doctor had been cqrefully examining his patient.          ,If there is any Sho Sim,
anology--" he began,      -Neuralogyl" snorted the indignant showman; a book of
short stories,
'taint neuralogy, you jay pill-box, she's cooked!"         ,If there is any by
analogy--" repeated Dr. Tibbitt, flushing a little, "between her case and H. C. 9un"r
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that of a human being, I think I can save your elephant. Get me a Kepp &r
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barrel of linseed oil, and drive these people away."       The Doctor's or- New York.
ders were obeyed with eager submission. He took off his coat and