And Ikey's very fond of
beer
on his own account. If I don't stop them, the stage hands would
be
always slipping him drinks. I hope you won't give him none."
"I will not!" said Herrick.
The bears, Ikey in one cage and Bruno and Clara in another,
travelled by express to the station nearest the Herrick estate.
There they were transferred to a farm wagon, and grumbling and
growling, and with Ikey howling like an unspanked child, they
were
conveyed to the game preserve. At the only gate that entered it,
Kelly and Jackson and a specially invited house party of youths
and
maidens were gathered to receive them. At a greater distance
stood
all of the servants and farm hands, and as the wagon backed
against
the gate, with the door of Ikey's cage opening against it, the
entire audience, with one accord, moved solidly to the rear.
Herrick, with a pleased but somewhat nervous smile, mounted the
wagon. But before he could unlock the cage Kelly demanded to be
heard. He insisted that, following the custom of all great
artists,
the bears should give a farewell performance.
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