. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. k the principal ownerof the show played on pa at Canton, O. Yousee John L. Sullivan used to do a boxing actwith this show, years ago, and everybody likesJohn, and when he shows up where the showgives a performance he has the freedom of thewhole place, and everybody about the show isready to fall over themselves to do John L. aservice. Well, Sullivan showed up at Canton, and hewent everywhere, all the forenoon, and metall the old timers, and at the afternoon per-formance he was awfully jolly. John was standing beside the ring when theJapanese juggle
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. k the principal ownerof the show played on pa at Canton, O. Yousee John L. Sullivan used to do a boxing actwith this show, years ago, and everybody likesJohn, and when he shows up where the showgives a performance he has the freedom of thewhole place, and everybody about the show isready to fall over themselves to do John L. aservice. Well, Sullivan showed up at Canton, and hewent everywhere, all the forenoon, and metall the old timers, and at the afternoon per-formance he was awfully jolly. John was standing beside the ring when theJapanese jugglers were juggling-, and heleaned against a pole. Pa came in from themenagerie tent, and he didnt know Sullivan,and when he saw Sullivan holding the pole up,pa said to the boss proprietor that the fat manwho vv^as interfering with the show ought tobe called down or put out. The boss said to pa: You go take him bythe ear and put him out, and pa, who is asbrave as lion, started for Sullivan, and theboss winked at the other circus men, and pa 120. John L. flatted Pa Just as Though He Was a ChlW. PECKS BAD BOY went up to Sullivan and took hold of Johnsneck with both hands, and said: Come onout of here. Well, sh, we ought to have moving picturesof what followed. Sullivan turned on pa, andgrowled just like a lion. Then he took paaround the waist and held him up under hisarm, and picked up a piece of board and slat-ted pa just as though pa was a child, and theaudience just yelled, and pa called to the circusmen for help, but they just laughed. Pa got a chance at the fat man and he hithim in the jaw, but it did not hurt Sullivan,only made him mad. He took pa up by thecollar and whirled him around until pa wasdizzy, and then he started with him for themenagerie tent, and called to the boss canvas-man: Bill, come on and tell me which is thehungriest lion, and I will feed him with thiscold meat. Pa yelled, cause he thought he was in thehands of an escaped lunatic, and the circushands came a
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