Outing . Photograph by A. P. Davis. You get a view of the grounds and a ticklish sensation at one and the same time. curdling shrieks of the Mad What-Is-It,Captured on the Coast of all the good nature in the world thesun-burned country folk and their buxomwives and daughters were pressing past theguard, paying their ten cents and peeringdown at the poor devil of an Italian rail-road hand who was playing the MadWhat-Is-It for the sum of one-fifty perday and board. His matted wig did notfit him, but it made a fearsome tangle overhis eyes. He was stripped to the waistand daubed wi
Outing . Photograph by A. P. Davis. You get a view of the grounds and a ticklish sensation at one and the same time. curdling shrieks of the Mad What-Is-It,Captured on the Coast of all the good nature in the world thesun-burned country folk and their buxomwives and daughters were pressing past theguard, paying their ten cents and peeringdown at the poor devil of an Italian rail-road hand who was playing the MadWhat-Is-It for the sum of one-fifty perday and board. His matted wig did notfit him, but it made a fearsome tangle overhis eyes. He was stripped to the waistand daubed with mud, and between worry-ing a chunk of raw beef and rattling hischains and yelling blue murder wheneverhe was prodded with a pole, he was earninghis wages and something over. Well aware they were being buncoed,the onlookers passed out to persuade theirfriends to be fooled in like fashion, andwere well repaid in the fun of passing italong. They took in the MarvelousMonster, Half Horse and Half Elephant,a
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