. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. w depended on our all beingwilling to take any part assigned to us, andso pa sat down and began to fan himself, andtried to look flirty like a woman. The other freaks never noticed but what itwas the fat woman mitil the show was halfover. It was too much for me, and I justlafifed at pa. I got up behind him and told himin a whisper that I wanted a dollar to play theslot machine, and he told me to go to thunder,and get out of there. I couldnt stand it to beinsulted by my own father, so I took a hat pinout of the hat of the bearded lady and punchedit
. Peck's bad boy with the circus [microform]. w depended on our all beingwilling to take any part assigned to us, andso pa sat down and began to fan himself, andtried to look flirty like a woman. The other freaks never noticed but what itwas the fat woman mitil the show was halfover. It was too much for me, and I justlafifed at pa. I got up behind him and told himin a whisper that I wanted a dollar to play theslot machine, and he told me to go to thunder,and get out of there. I couldnt stand it to beinsulted by my own father, so I took a hat pinout of the hat of the bearded lady and punchedit into pas blowed up rubber shirt, and pabegan to sis, like a soda fountain, and the windstruck the living skeleton and blew him overlike a cyclone, and by that time pa was blowingoff wind in a dozen places that I had punctured,and he was scared for fear there wouldnt beanj^thing left of him, and the giant saw thefat woman slowly fading away, and the cowardhad heart failure and lay down on the plat-form. Somebody shouted that the fat woman lOd. I Punctured Pas Tires. PECKS BAD BOY was all melting away, and a fellow who waswatering a camel out of a bucket came to therescue and threw the bucket of dirty water allover pa, and then I thought I better go awayinto the tent and see the fight, but pa wastaken to the dressing room and rescued fromthe shrinking rubber balloons that were bust-ed, and he said he would hunt the man thatpunctured his tire to his dying day, but hedidnt know it was me. Gee, it looks to me as though pa has beenengaged to act as the easy mark in this , they got pa to practice on roaring likea lion, so he could stand behind the cage whenthe lion has a sore throat and roar, and scarefolks, and pa has been going around behindthe cages, every evening, when the menagerieis closed, and the crowd in the main tent, mak-ing noises that have made the animals lookat each other as much as to say, Well, whatdo you think of that? The rhinoceros was sodisgusted at Paduca
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