| Show DONKEY DOG aciz AND GOAT the three great of a transcontinental journey the three 0 oil fi OS t things that eisaw I 1 saw 0 outside of new lew york ver said a new yorker who had bad gone overland land to denver and returned by water by way of galveston were a donkey a dog and a goat the donkey was the tha motive power of the single bobtail car that goes up the hill bill on south broadway denver he was an amusing fellow aft after I 1 made my first trip up that steep hill I 1 was astonished to see the conductor unhitch the donkey and put him aboard the car can the dashboard was fitted up as a sort of stall and he be stood there sideways when the car started back down the hill under its own im petus petua the dor donkeys keys face took on a de lighted ef ezre 1 region sion as he be found himself in the ro role le rf passenger he really seemed to L 01 0 inning 1 at the conductor and the passengers passe agers I 1 1 saw raw the dog as aa I 1 was about to enter the tabor taber opera house in denver the dog was called bill and he was part of the outfit of a cig cigar a x 6 tore storo i in t tha h a opera house building he was a black spaniel he was rigged up in zouave trousers and jacket trimmed with gold braid had a tasseled tasse led fez on his head and spectacles on his nose the oddest thing about him was that he sat on his bis haunches with his paws in the air actually smoking a cigarette cigarette like a confirmed cigarette fiend I 1 found that he had been trained to smoke the cigarette while the audience was going into tho the theater as an advertisement of his owners business that was the first time I 1 bad ever seen a dog smoking em oking 1 I made the acquaintance of the goat in a tobacco f factory in key west there thera were cuban girls there nearly all of them pretty and all of them smokers or chewers of tobacco the goat was their particular pet he was the biggest goat I 1 ever saw almost as large as a shetland pony with big branching horns and perfectly tame he playfully butted the girls or pranced around among them his best trick however was the larceny of their dinner baskets he used to go nosing around until he ha found a choice luncheon he Ile would knock over tho the basket seize the lunch and dash outdoors with it no amount of chastisement had ever broken him of the trick of course I 1 baw wonderful scenery in the journey but the donkey and the dog and the goat were by long odds the most interesting living things that I 1 encountered key york san |
