. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. clothes at pa, and bellowed, asmuch as to defy pa. Pa turned the cock of theextinguisher, and pointed the nozzle at Boli-vars head, and began to squirt the medicatedwater all over him. For a moment Bolivaracted as though he couldnt take a joke, andwas going to start off again, but pa keptsquirting, and when the chemical water beganto eat into Bolivars hide, the big animal weak-ened, and trumpeted in token of surrender,and kneeled down in front of pa, and finallygot down so pa could get on his back, and patook the hook and hooked it in the flap of B
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. clothes at pa, and bellowed, asmuch as to defy pa. Pa turned the cock of theextinguisher, and pointed the nozzle at Boli-vars head, and began to squirt the medicatedwater all over him. For a moment Bolivaracted as though he couldnt take a joke, andwas going to start off again, but pa keptsquirting, and when the chemical water beganto eat into Bolivars hide, the big animal weak-ened, and trumpeted in token of surrender,and kneeled down in front of pa, and finallygot down so pa could get on his back, and patook the hook and hooked it in the flap of Bol-ivars ear, where is a tender spot, and he toldBoliver to get up and go back to the tent, andBolivar was as meek as a lamb, and he got up,with pa on his back, and the fire extinguisheron pas back, and marched back to the tent,through the hole he had made coming of people followed, and cheeredpa, and when they got in the tent pa said to the7rincipal owner of the show, who had made^«n of him: Heres your elephant, and when- 70. Pa Turned the Cock of the Extinguisher and Pointed theNozzle at Bolivars Head. PECKS BAD JJUV ever any of your old animals get on the war-path, and you want em rounded up, dont for-get my number, cause I can knock the spotsout of any animal except a giraffe. Thecrowd cheered pa again and he got down ofifthe elephant, took ofif his fire extinguisher,and handed Bolivar a piece of rag carpet, andsaid: Eat it, you old catamaran, or Ill killyou, and Bolivar was so scared of pa he eatthe carpet, which shows the power of brain^ver avoirdupois, pa says. The regular keeper of Bolivar heard he wason the rampage, and he came back on the runto conquer him, after pa had got him back inthe tent, but Bolivar looked at him with a far-away look in his eyes, as much as to say:Seems to me I have met you somewhere be-fore, but a new king has been crowned, andhe took his old keeper by the back of his coatand threw him toward the monkey cage. Themonkeys gave the
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