. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. his head andwent right into the midst of the Indians, andgrabbed a chief called One Ear at a Time,and hit him with the tent stake, and knockedhim down, and said, Now, you git. Well,sir, that Indian had no more than struck thefire in a sitting position, and filled the air withthe odor of fried buckskin, before the wholetribe jumped on pa, and they kicked him withtheir moccasins, and were going to murderhim, while the chief who acted as the burntoffering got out of the fire, and sat down inthe cold mud to cool himself. He held up hishand as a signal
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. his head andwent right into the midst of the Indians, andgrabbed a chief called One Ear at a Time,and hit him with the tent stake, and knockedhim down, and said, Now, you git. Well,sir, that Indian had no more than struck thefire in a sitting position, and filled the air withthe odor of fried buckskin, before the wholetribe jumped on pa, and they kicked him withtheir moccasins, and were going to murderhim, while the chief who acted as the burntoffering got out of the fire, and sat down inthe cold mud to cool himself. He held up hishand as a signal of attention, and he calleda council of war, while the squaws sat on pato hold him down. The council of war sentenced pa to beburned at the stake, and they tied him to atree and began to pile sticks around him, andpa told me to go to the circus lot and give analarm, and send the hands to rescue him. Gee,but didnt I run though, and yell an alarm bigenough for a massacre. I told the hands, whowere sleeping under the seats, or playing cardsi66. PECKS BAD BOY on the trunks that the Indians were burning paat the stake, and some of the hands said thatwould serve him right, and the fellows thatwere playing cards said they didnt want tobreak up the game when they were losers, torescue no baldheaded curmudgeon. I thoughtpa was a goner, sure, cause I could hear theIndians yell, and I thought I could smell fleshburning. Oh, but I was scared for fear theywould burn pa alive. Just then the man who had charge of ourcannibals, who each had a dog that they werelooking for a place to roast, came along and Itold him about the Indians corn roast, and heordered the cannibals to go drive the Indiansaway from their Are and roast their , it worked like a charm, and the cannibalsmade a rush for the Indians and drove themaway just as they had lighted the fire aroundpa, and we were not a minute too soon. Afterthe Indians had skedaddled for the woods,and we cut the cords that bound pa, the canni
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