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Show FOE LITTLE FOLKS. BABY DONKEYS. A Fair of Topular Pets Iu Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The children have two new pots out at Golden Gate park. There are two brand new baby donkeys that are brought out for an hour or two daily to the playground, and when they are there nothing else in the park attracts any attention at-tention at all from the children. The donkeys are not much bigger than San Joaquin valley jack rabbits, and each one wears a pair of ears many sizes too large for him. They are very socia w ble and enjoy being petted by the little folks, but the attention they have attracted at-tracted has sort of spoiled them. When they get tired of being fondled, they are just as likely as not to kick the nearest child with the most malevolent intention inten-tion in the world. The kick of one of the baby donkeys is a triflo more serious seri-ous than a slap from a chicken might bo, and nothing pleases the young donkey don-key worshipers more than to provoke one of these manifestations of displeasure. displeas-ure. Of course nobody thinks of harnessing har-nessing or saddling the little donkeys yet. They could as well think of hitching hitch-ing a couple of lambs. They have not been named yet, and they look so much alike that only their closest acquaintances among the children chil-dren know them anart. Thev are civen into Mr. JIurpby's charge, Mr. Murphy being the superintendent of the children's chil-dren's playground, for a very short time every day except Sundays. The exception excep-tion is made because the wise people to whom the future of the young donkeys has been intrusted do not think that they would be able to stand the excitement and petting they would get from a Sunday Sun-day crowd of children. As it is, they are surrounded all tho time that they are in the playground by children, and tho funny woolly little boasts with the long ears and wrinkled noses are already threatened with dyspepsia from the inordinate in-ordinate quantity of peanuts, popcorn and candy that has been smuggled to them. Up to date the donkeys, in addition to accepted edibles, have devoured several sev-eral rl ("I-M71 T-iru L-n f c nnrl nnifo 'i nm YtaT of pinafores. Tho little beasts get quite tired out with the excitement and the fondling, and then they are led away to a stable, followed by a wistful lot of children. The idea of bringing them to the playground play-ground is to accustom them to children, so that when their time shall come to haul the little carts or be saddled up there will be no difficulty. San Francisco Fran-cisco Examiner. |