ALICE THE ELEPHANT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3760, 25 May 1936, Page 3

ALICE THE ELEPHANT

NOW WITH WIRTH’S CIRCUS The Children’s Newspaper (London), a short time ago started an inquiry for an elephant which had been sold from the London Zoo soine years ago. The Inquiry was successful and the elephant was located with Wirth’s circus. The paper after commenting on Alice’s exploits says:—“Alice 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 diiys 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 umber up to the shod, dexterously open the door with her trunk, and vanish inside. When she reappeared she had a tin of milk curled up iu 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.”