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Evening Bulletin

Location

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Date

May 18, 1896

Page

7

Elephant and tiger tale ends with portmanteau punchline

In a rolling yarn from 1869 a former Barnum hand recalls an elephant’s clash with a Bengal tiger. The beast supposedly sought a surgeon then a “tranks” repair shop, a comic misstep about a smart animal and a practical joke on brass wire picture hangings.

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