 Why was Gertrude continuously screaming?
I've wet-nursed Shannon's Imperial Circus around the Triangle for eleven years, and I know. He said, "Boss, Gertrude's actin' up again." "Gertrude be blowed," growled Bucky. "I'm tellin' you, Boss, Gertrude ain't happy. Beamish cleared his throat and said, rather stiffly, "Gertrude?" The only other one on the Triangle belongs to Savitt Brothers, and she's much smaller than Gertrude." Gertrude may be a little creaky, but she's still pretty impressive. It grates on a man's pride to have to sneak in and out of his own property through the sewage lock. I called Gertrude every name I could think of, and I couldn't hear myself doing it.
 She was desperate for a mate
 She was cramped in a much too small space.  She missed her family.  She was near starving.  She was desperate for a mate