. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. and took his clothes away irom him,cause he only wears his clothes when he isbeing dined and wined, and we chained him inthe upper berth. He just raised the very deuceon the way down to New York. After pa andI got to sleep that baboon got my clothes, andput them on, slipped the chain over his head,jumped through the transom, and went intoevery berth where the transom was open, andchatted with the people who occupied theberths. There was an old man and womanfrom New Hampshire in one berth, and whenthe monk got in their berth and began to talkthe New
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. and took his clothes away irom him,cause he only wears his clothes when he isbeing dined and wined, and we chained him inthe upper berth. He just raised the very deuceon the way down to New York. After pa andI got to sleep that baboon got my clothes, andput them on, slipped the chain over his head,jumped through the transom, and went intoevery berth where the transom was open, andchatted with the people who occupied theberths. There was an old man and womanfrom New Hampshire in one berth, and whenthe monk got in their berth and began to talkthe Newport language, the old man thoughtit was me, and he said: Now, bub, you goaway to your pa. The monk went out, and got into anotherberth, and crawled under the bunk, and whenthe woman came in to go to bed, she lookedunder it to see if any man was there. Whenshe saw our baboon she yelled fire, and theofficers of the boat pulled him out by the hindleg, and tore my pant leg off. Pa and I had tosit up the rest of the night with him, and when 174. When She Saw the Baboon She Yelled Fire, PECKS BAD BOY we landed him with the show at MadisonSquare Garden we felt relieved. One woman on the boat has followed usever since to collect damages from pa, causehis oldest son, the monk, proposed to , it seems to me a woman ought to knowthe difference between a baboon and a man,but some women will marry anything thatwears clotheSo The monk took to me so, Pa said I mustteach him everything I could that men do, soI though it would do no harm to teach him tochew tobacco, cause he could already smokecigarettes, so I borrowed a chew from the bosscanvasman, a great big chew of black plugtobacco, and the monk grabbed it, and chewedit awhile, just before the afternoon perform-ance, and swallowed it. I knew that settledthe monk, and when the audience came alongby his cage, and pa was trying to get him toperform, as he did at Newport, eating dinnerlike a man, the monk turned pale, and hisstomach ach
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