. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. anything with them, and they bel-lowed and dodged mice and shied at rats, andBolivar took his trunk and swatted pa clearacross the ring. The elephants followed Bolivar to the mainentrance, each elephant trying to walk on theheels of the one ahead of him, and all the cir-cus hands trying to head ofif the elephants,but they wouldnt head off. They were simplyscared to death, and they broke out the sideof the tent near the lemonade stand and wentwhooping out into the open air and freedom,while the audience yelled with joy. Young Mr. Senator said to me:
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. anything with them, and they bel-lowed and dodged mice and shied at rats, andBolivar took his trunk and swatted pa clearacross the ring. The elephants followed Bolivar to the mainentrance, each elephant trying to walk on theheels of the one ahead of him, and all the cir-cus hands trying to head ofif the elephants,but they wouldnt head off. They were simplyscared to death, and they broke out the sideof the tent near the lemonade stand and wentwhooping out into the open air and freedom,while the audience yelled with joy. Young Mr. Senator said to me: What doyou think of elephants now? I told him to take his money and hedarned. The audience was getting nervous, so theband struck up A Hot Time in the OldTown, and they were quieting down as thecurtain raised and the horses for the chariotrace came out. Just then a woman with redsocks got up on her chair in the press seatsand pulled her dress away up and yelled,Rats! and another woman screamed andjumped up on a seat with her clothes at half. Bolivar Swatteo Pa Clear Across the Ring PECKS BAD BOY mast, and yelled that there were mice on theseats. In less than two minutes every womanin the audience, and the bearded woman, andthe fat woman, were standing up on some-thing, holding up their dresses and shakingtheir skirts and screaming, and when the fatwoman fell into the arms of the beardedwoman, in a faint, and the bearded womandropped the fat woman, pa told the beardedwoman he was ashamed of her screaming,cause she ought to be more of a man thanthat. Well, every mouse and rat in the bunchseemed to be looking for women to screamat them, and there was no use trying to runa show with such an excited audience, so pahad the band play Good Night, Ladies, andhe announced that the performance might beconsidered over for the afternoon. Every-body made a rush for the exits. Each womanheld up her skirts and fairly galloped to getaway from the mice and rats. They all got out of the tent fin
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