The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-15
THE PROTEAN FOGGARTY.
sketch of Great si,leshow Artist.

Sketch of Great Sideshow Artist.
The proprietor of a sideshow. in a re-
cent interview with reporter, thus de-
scribed one Of his greatest attractions:
Foggarty, said he, was the best Zulu
ever had, and have had hundred of
'em. He laid over the lot. He entered in
to the spirit of the thing and did the biz
ness conscientiously. When he came out
side with a iron girdle about him, and a
pizen spear, he lept in dead earnest, he
did. He made it mighty lively for the
keeper to hold him, and he howled SO like
| savage that he skeered the wimmen and
gals to q degree that they couldn't help CO.
IN to see him. Foggarty was great man,
and he'd talent. He was the best Modoc
chief ever had, 0 'Finnegan could lay over
him in the green corn dance. and possibly
drest the best; but Foggarty's war-whoop
was suthin sublime. We he'd him one sea-
son as Scar Faced Charley, and the next as
Shack Nasty jim; and he did himself proud
in both. And then there want no dam
nonsense about h m. Ho would peel out of
his Injun clothes and go and clean the lamps,
and help pack, or do anything. Before the
doors opened he'd do canvesman, and
howl at the door, and he'd play the bass
drum or grind the organ with cheerfulness.
In the street parade of the big show he was
for five years our Washington, the father
of his country, standin' on revolvin' PEI
destal. Then jist as soon as he got his dim
ner, he'd help git up the canvas. and then
skin into his Zulu rig. and after that he'd
peddle lemonade, or do anything to make
hissef yoosful.
"But woman spilled him. WiMmin
Spite great many good men. We he'd a
woman, Biddy McCarty, who was dom the
Circassian lady with hair to the heels-you
know EN- and sometimes the bearded lady.
Likewise she was Chinese knife thrower;
and Foggarty yoosed to be the Chinan.an
she thowed her knives at. Well, Foggarty
-seein' that she was an Irish girl, and he
an Irishman- cooden't no more help fallin'
in love with her than fire can help burnin'
tow. He got it into his head that, ef he
Good marry girl with 500 much talent, he
might some day have sideshow Of his
own. And then as time rolled on and they
he'd kids, he Good train 'em up to the fam
lily business, and do things cheap. He
wanted to be q bearded family, ofa Zulu
family, or a Jap family, or suthin', and SO
he married Biddy, and they went double.
''Biddy had will Of her own, and be-
sides she would get drunk Rum spiles
more talent in the perfesh than anything
else. She had trick Of beatin' Foggarty,
and she led him devils own life. It was
ct Leroy, N. Y. She had been on as the
Circassian lady, and he'd sold all the photo
graphs she Good, and he'd changed to go on
as the Chinese knife the rover from Hang
Fo. Foggerty he'd changed to a Chinaman
-Lu Flu, the wizard-when diskivered
! that Biddy he'd bin drinkin'! warned
Foggarty to look out for she was ugly, but
he laughed, and said she wouldn't hurt
him, and went on.
You hev seen that act Foggarty stands
agin board with his arms spread out. and
the ChinaWOman throws knives all around
him. She puts EN- between his fingers and
close to his neck and between.his legs. Bid
dy could throw knife
within hair Of where she wanted
it to go. She he'd talent, as Ised.
Foggerty he'd he'd it hot, and when she
came in twistin' her queue, I knowd suth-
in was goin' to happen. She throwed six
or eight knives all right, and then one went
| whiz. It took off Foggerty's second finger
on his right hand as clean as a butchers
cleaver could do it. And Biddy fired the
rest of the knives at him and rushed out
yellin' BE CORA Mike Foggarty, and yell
bate me ovaf the head with tent pin
again. will ye? Yell have one finger less
to do it wild, onyhow.
Most men would hev abandoned the
perfesh with that finger off, but while il
was bein dressed, Mike whispered to me,
Put it on the bills that the Zulu chief los
the finger by English SAILOR at the battle
where was the battle?"
Il hev Foggarty yet; bnt Biddy broke
his heart, and he amt as good as he was
She run away with the Cannibal from tn,
Friendly Islands, who GOOD do the tightrop,
and fire eatin' and they are dom hall show:
and the variety BUSINESS together. II,
taught her to do a,song and dance as vel
as fire eatin', and she IS now Mile Lul,
Delmayne.' They DO society sketches, too
Foggarty is jest as willln' as ever, but thu
blow was too much for him. He goes OF
with his next season as Zulu, and alst
lecters on the Sacred Burmese cattle, ant
has a part in the wild perarie scene, ant
fires the caiope. He can't do Washington
any more, for he has rheumatic and can
stand I'M hour with his right arm IN q mill
tary coat. He's practisn' to be q lion tanner
but I don't bleeve it'll do. He may 81
to play the snake, but that is about as high
as he'll ever get in the perfesh."
Charles O'COnOr's Recovery.
Tho romo rkah1n racOvarv n Ghar1o