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S S BATTLE 1 1 t 1 t f fl 4 41 i f nS' nS Yi I j tit flOM II OM If J lI l' l t I ii tA S t E t t- t 0 S' S STR TR I CH i r Ji t t Y What Happened to o the e Boston Youth r i g 1 Who Went Skylarking for a aDay t I r 1 r Day an and Woke Wp Up in In the e Zoo r rv J v I F b 4 Fighting Desperately for foi His r Very t t i i e eb I F Vii With Two Two- Two Toed Toed Bud Bird 1 x r l Life e a Huge t d' d r r j j That Nearly Kicked Him to Death f r b Veer o s Si t t T Before He a Succeeded in in Choking It r I What is a man to do but fight when a monster out of the dark begins trampling trampling tram tram- pling him So reason reasoned d William Villiam McIntyre l and the battle with the duck on stilts ts was on onT T THE HE moon scuttled behind big gray clouds and the wand howl howled d like a maniac The air was damp and cold and William McIntyre turned up his his' coat collar and shivered He struck a match but it flickered and went out and the place was black as Egypt's night Overhead on a skylight skylight sky sky- light rain splashed mournfully and there Was no more moon McIntyre put his hands to his throbbing throbBing throb throb- bing head and groaned aloud A strange odor edor assailed his nostrils and he tried vaguely to place it Sawdust and peanuts peanuts peanuts pea pea- nuts and monkeys It made him think of the circus That was was strange he hadn't been to a circus I since he was a am small email m II boy Somewhere in the dark behind him he heard a snoring s sound und and a great thrashing like a giant tossing in his sleep leep Then all was quiet till suddenly an angry bellow rent the midnight calm Wild and eerie thoughts flashed through the mans man's mind Where was he Out of a job and Respondent Mr McIntyre Mc Mc- McIntyre Intyre had t some contraband that afternoon to drive away the blues He bought it on Atlantic avenue in Boston where the ships come in and it happened to be compounded of deadly potions of wood alcohol and ether It didn't make Mr Mr McIntyre feel any better The day wore wore on and night descended and our hero thought of home and mother His mother was vas ill and nd h he had promised prom feed her he would never drini Some spark of latent chivalry prompted him to find a distant bed that night For hours he had r roamed amed about the city S searching arching In dark corners for a place to tolay tolay tolay lay his aching he head d and stretch his weary tN t legs N NOW MOW OW he put his hands before him and A finding walls he sought a door An And d when he found it he drew it shut and an d bolted it Then he took off his coat t to o fold it for a pillow and placing it on th the e floor lay down to sleep As he closed his eyes a great weight weigh t ts descended on his chest His shirt Wa s torn open at the throat and his heart hear t almost scratched front from his body Something Some Somo o thing clawed his face And as he sprang g to hl his f feet et a well-directed well kick In th the e stomach sent him reeling backward B Before Before Be Be- fore hI his astonished hed e eyes s pranced a ghastly Thing huge and powerful lunging lunging lung ing this way and that It inflicted horrible horrible hor blows and scratches Now William McIntyre is 5 6 feet 9 with his shoes on and weighs 13 in hi his s topcoat topcoat But ho he stood up like a ma man n and took what was coming to him II Ho He e B pUt plat out his thin little arms and he mada made mad madea B a a mighty lurch at the Thing His hands hand s closed and between en them in a grip lik like e iron he held an extremity of his adver wary sary Skinny he said afterward and soil soft like the neck neek of a duck on stilts Then he was yanked from his feet an and d flung against the wall wall first first one wa wall vall walland 11 I and th then n another How long the struggle lasted no on one ne e knows N Next morning there ther was blo blood spattered d about and a crimson pool o othe on n the floor Matted hair was stuck with wit h gore to the th walls and they sound found a a gre great at F gash in the door Suddenly the Thing in McIntyre McIntyre's rs handy hands went limp and when ho he released It 11 I something heavy fell feU with a thud to t thEl thE he l' l floor Then he left his coat where it l lb laj y i and stumbled into th the night again Next morning Daniel Hawkins fount four d the Governor murdered in his cham char ber His neck w Was s twisted and crushed d j P 4 1 f i S R i I N 7 In the corner was a ft coat oat torn to rags And Andin in the pockets they found l letters that convicted ted Gov Governors Governor's slayer Governor was the big male ostrich at Franklin Park Mr Hawkins is curator of the Zoo The Governors Governor's mate Lady V was mourning beside his body and her late lord was dead as th the proverbial door doornail There never was a more mysterious killing For the late Governor was was' match match- for a dozen men He Ite was eight ight feet tall and he weighed pounds His disposition wa was notoriously vicious and his strength renowned When the Governor f fought he fought with hi his feet and he kicked like ike a steer His talons were sharp as S steel and as de deadly In one scratch he could tear a mans man's body a apart Once when Ladys Lady's wing had been injured in in- in injured at arid and d Zoo attendants were caring for it it Gov Governor rn r fearful perhaps of her safety charged the group They barely escaped with their lives JIves The mean old ostrich was as valuable as h he Was Ugly He w was was ls worth at at feast f Iea st a st and there happen to be none of his kind in the market It looked like cold blooded d gang murder murdel murder mur mur- der del for it was the consensus of opinion that n no o one e man could have waged battle with the belligerent bird sand and escaped with his life N Next ext morning the papers led ledwith ledwith ledwith with the story Youve You've heard perhaps of the professors professor's in instruction in- in n. n Yo r to his class in journalism journal journal- 11 ism A dog bites a man That's nothing A man bites 4 k a dog dE That's news That was the way it was with the ostrich Plenty of ostriches have killed men But no m man n before had ever b been en known to kill kUt an ostrich in personal combat Meantime the police were gating They found the the- letters in Mr McIntyre's coat and caught him at his home on Columbus avenue in Roxbury Rox fox bury a mile or more from the Zoo His mother answered the bell bett Yes she told them hes home But hes he's not very well well well-my my But Bill Hes He's sick in bed and I cannot let you see him The officers glanced at one another r significantly the matter with him 1 demanded de d one And what's that hat to you y u 1 countered his mother What do you want with him hint 1 Has he been fighting to your knowledge knowl edge queried the officer t AND A ND at that the story stoy was out H He has sobbed his mother The poor boy broke his promise to me last night and drank some moonshine and he got in a fight and received a most terrible terri tern ble beating Gods God's punishment Id I'd call it to make him mend his wild ways but Im I'm afraid hell he'll die on me He's Hes in an awful way with the blows the brutes gave him A gang of them th m there must have been Is it for fighting and disturbing dis the peace you want him Then it developed that McIntyre senior was looking for the black devils that had near murdered his boy And William bruised and repentant had tak taken n another pledge on his mothers mother's little Bible and sworn by all aU that was holy never to touch a s drop again The officers questioned him kindly I His face was cut ut and his eyes blackened There was a great wound on his chest within three inches of his heart and several sev sev- eral cral ribs rib were there broken The family physician physician phy- phy had treated and bandaged and suggested an ray X-ray ray when the boy felt better He lie told an honest straightforward i story Laid off from work he felt blue and clis discouraged So blue indeed that j ho broke the promise he had made his r mother and bought some Bomo liquor to drown his sorrows All afternoon he drank I with some friends of the moment and toward midnight turned his steps toward hornet home Suddenly lly he be re realized led that h he was f l I a S Lt fk bt l fi i Ya 1 1 r w 4 p lid n rs h s sp p f f at b I 1 r d r I 1 V T t r r r j I F r f tb r 6 v a J Ff fd 4 V I t Yr W L' L Lb b tsI Et t Yla h J ar h As the ring prize prize hug followers say McIntyre gave away away pounds when he took on Governor for fora 4 a finish fight The big ostrich outweighed his hist t human opponent bya by a wide margin Yi rY I s v 1 k I shown i with Curator W i I 1 Hawkins slept r while Governor the giant ostrich I I. I and McIntyre battled a r r i r in no c condition to encounter the family After that he browsed around a bit looking looking look look- ing for a place to sleep He had no idea where he was at last he found himself in a cozy small email room with a skylight ov overhead and the rain pattering down There were strange noises somewhere about but they did not particularly bother him him- And the place smelled like a circus He found a door and bolted it Then he made a pillow Y of his coat and was going to sleep when some dirty villain attacked him and gave him a most awful beating What did he look like the policemen policemen police police- men wanted to know r WILLIAM ILLIAM could not see in the dark ark But had had the man brought charges against him The bully I It was himself started it all For some time the officers questioned the young man At length convinced of his hill sincerity they reported to the captain of their station If It William McIntyre killed Governor they said lie he did not krow how it All he could remember of that memorable fight tight was clutching something skinny and sot soft like the neck of ot a duck on stilts and no not until they refreshed his memory with talk of or birds that fought like Dempsey did he ho recollect recollect recollect lect even that Next day regretfully the officers arrested Mr McIntyre charged with trespassing breaking and entering and cruelty to animals And then the tale of that dark duk nights night's adventures adventures' spread like wildfire iL ti tr dam iS r t Z L rill b. b Somehow be Somehow w-be w he could not have done it sober William sober William had scaled a wire barbed-wire fence twelve feet high and entered a place c called the Camels Camels' House where certain Zoo dignitaries dwelled in peace and concord There were and nd Stanley Arabian dromedary camels sporting one hump apiece and fond of the quiet life Curator Hawkins says they are so phlegmatic a pair that the killing just beyond their apartment probably did not disturb them greatly It was that McIntyre heard snoring snoring ing like a giant In the tha next stall separated by a wooden wall from Governor and his Lady bellowed a great zebu called Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty the sacred bull buH of India Liberty paraded across the stage stag in Boston when Chu Chin Chow was staged but a chorus girl intrigued his fancy and he ho gave chase After that the management presented him to the Zoo for ing On the thc other side of the ostriches lived an axis deer called Buck Duck the lovely spotted deer of Ceylon Buck horrified by the death struggle raging so n near ar arhim him took a flying leap and jumped his ten-foot ten stall to seek solace with and Stanle Stanley The attendants found him there in the morning still atilt trembling and frightened There had never been such turmoil in the Zoo Mr Hawkins fearful of ot the h hi h power of bootleg stuff pla placed place placeda cd d a guard over the lions' lions den and ordered d a cordon ordon of ot attendants to patrol the tigers tigers' and nd the leopards' leopards cages 2 In In Incourt court McIntyre was a broken and penitent r r re Th The Judge believed his story and took the case under advise advise- ment Th The young young- man declared he had no clear recollection of the fight but conceded his probable guilt Cur Curator tor H Hawkins testified that Governor was worth all aIt of but had a mean dis dis- dis position He could not understand he said how McIntyre got away with his life Then some one had the liquor that caused it all analyzed and th the chemist reported that it Contained wood alcohol and ether enough to make a man crazy blind or dead The defense rested and McIntyre went home to his mother who was suffering a complete breakdown asa as asa asa a result of the affair For some time the Judge fudge considered and the other day he handed down his decision On charges of breaking and entering and cruelty to animals he exonerated the culprit and fined him 20 for trespassing Now young Mr McIntyr is home nursing his wounds and besieged by offers They want him to do a skit in vaudeville with witha a make-believe make ostrich and they want him to travel with a circus as an animal tamer He has even had bids from the movies But his mother refuses to Jo let him consider any of them Ill Til not let him dim im capitalize the death of that poor de dead d bird she says AND A ND there the matter rests with William William William Wil- Wil liam a a hero everywhere but at home At the Zoo Lady mourns her dead mate Her appetite has fallen off and she has grown nervous and irritable When Governor lived sh she ate three or four pounds of hay every day a generous amount of bran and plenty of or gravel and broken bone Now she only picks at things She used to b be very proud of her big white hite eggs Now she ki kicks ks them disdainfully aside One of Ladys Lady's eggs by the way makes as much omelet as two and a half halt dozen hens' hens eggs and two of them would feed a dozen hearty longshoremen Due to climatic tlc conditions they Y have always been sterile so the Governor left not a chick nor a child He Me and his widow were both African ostriches the greatest of all living birds remnants of ot those bird races which flourished in past ag ages s and linger only in isolated communities During tho the breeding se season season son the large flocks separate s several veral females female being taken under the prote protection tion of one OM male malo bird In some isolated part of the tho des desert rt a shallow basin is scraped in the sand Band and all the h hens ris lay their eggs together in this simple nest When a dozen are deposited the male begins to brood sitting closely all night surrounded by his females During the day the female birds relieve one orie another more to guard their treasure from jackals than to forward forward forward for for- ward the process of h hatching for that y uti t. t 1 e k I is often left to the heat of th the sun The gray color of the f females males tones with the desert sands sandi during the day while the tha male whose body feathers are black as jet broods from dark to dawn Ostriches show the greatest solicitude for their young The male mate will sham a broken leg or fiercely attack anything which threatens the safety of his family His strength is almost unbelievable When angry he kicks Icks out v violently in call all directions scratching with each each- forward forward forward for for- ward kick GOVERNOR GOVERNOR and anci his Lady had a are remarkable remarkable re- re dance which is is often orten practiced instinctively by mere chicks i iThe The two great birds started at opp opposite site ends of ot their corral and began whirling t round and round until they became almost a blur the centrifugal force raising them upon their very tiptoes I like ballet dancers Little by little they a approached wings whirring round x to widely extended when suddenly they I Isto y sto stopped ped facing each each other mouths opened thrown up and back There never was a more startling st sight in the Zoo No one knows by the way how long these birds live We |