. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. d the lion raisedup his head and looked them through thebars as though he was saying, in a snarlingway, What you grave robbers howling about?Cant you keep still and let the czar of all theanimals enjoy his after dinner nap? Just then the hyenas kicked what was leftof the hornets nest under the bars into hisside of the cage, and he put his foot on it andgrowled, and about a hundred hornets gavehim his. He gave an Abyssinian cough thatwoke all the animals, and then the hornetsscattered and before I knew it the zebras weredancing a snake dance and
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. d the lion raisedup his head and looked them through thebars as though he was saying, in a snarlingway, What you grave robbers howling about?Cant you keep still and let the czar of all theanimals enjoy his after dinner nap? Just then the hyenas kicked what was leftof the hornets nest under the bars into hisside of the cage, and he put his foot on it andgrowled, and about a hundred hornets gavehim his. He gave an Abyssinian cough thatwoke all the animals, and then the hornetsscattered and before I knew it the zebras weredancing a snake dance and all of them werehowling as though they were in the ark, hun-gry, and the ark had landed on Mount Ararat. Just then one of the assistant managersbeckoned to me to lead in my procession andwe lighted the candles in our Chinese didnt stop to see how the animals got alongwith the hornets, but I couldnt help thinkingthat if one hornets^ nest could raise such a row,what would a hundred or so do when we gotto going in the other tent?2q6. He Hit Pa Over the Head with His Chinese Lanterns. PECKS BAD BOY Oh, if I had only died when I was young, Inever would have witnessed that sight. Theband played, Therell be a Hot Time in theOld Town To-night, and pas crowd of whitetrash marched around the big outside ringshouting, Bryan! Bryan! Whats the matterwith Bryan! and the audience got up on itshind legs and yelled—that is the white folksdid—and then we marched around the otherway, and yelled, Teddy is the stuff! Teddyis the stuff! and the negroes in the audienceyelled. Then my crowd met pas crowd rightby the middle ring, where the elephants hadformed the pyramid that closes their act, andthe Japanese jugglers were in the right-handring, and a party of female tumblers, with low-necked stockings, were standing at attentionin the left-hand ring. There was no intention of having a riot,but when pa yelled, Whats the matter withBryan? a negro in my crowd yelled, Thatswhats the matter
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