ALICE, THE ELEPHANT
Alice the Zoo elephant is determined to keep in the news. She is still the pride of Wirth's Circus at Melbourne, and is disposed to take advantage of her age and position. For several days tins of condensed milk had been missing from a shed, and the circus people set a watch for the thief. They saw the venerable old lady lumber up to the shed, dexterously open the door with her trunk, and vanish inside. When she reappeared she had a tin of milk curled up in her trunk, and, banging it on a convenient
peg to open it, she drank the milk with every appearance of enjoyment. A whole pile of empty tins was found .on the other side of , a fence where Alice had thrown them. Not a very ladylike action, some might say; Litter Lout, perhaps others might say; but Alice at the age of 120 is a privileged creature. However long she may be lost to sight she will be to memory dear. There are still living grandfathers and grandmothers who rode on her back at the London Zoo when they were children. . \.- . ■
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Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 10
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