The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-19
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Why Mr. Mulkittle is to be Inves,ig ated
 by the Executive Committee

Why Mr. Mulkittie is to ee Inves,ig atei
 by the Executive Committee.
 Gorgeous plumes nodded in the street. the elephan, marched with awkward tread and the painted young lady in airy cos tune rode in the lions den. The circus had come. MT. Mulki,ile stood a, the gate and looked at the grand aggrega- tion,' but when his son tried to direc, his attention to a horrible head and long bag neck, bobbing up from the top of a cage, the good man made pre,ense of entirely disregarding the procession. "Ah, Lord," he said when the procession had passed, to think of the vain pomp and pernicious show of this world.s
 We can run across to the next stree, and see i, again." suggested the boy who though, ,ha, his fathers solemn 9eelara- ton had been made in regre, ,ha, the grea, cavalcade had so soon passed away.
 "l don, wan, to see i, again. the father quickly replied.
 Have you got enough :"
 Il didn', care 10 see i, at all Then what made you stand here :: Why didn't you go in the house when you saa i, eoming:'
 lfyou keep on talking ,ha, way you shan, so 10 the show.'
 May go?" the child exclaimed r ecs,aoy, for the first time realizing ,ha, there might be some hope. If ma says l may, mayn'tl:'
 "You can't go alone
 Bu, can't you go with me :"
 Il don't care to go, but i. your mother says you may, probably I'll go with you tonight" and the reverend gentleman plucked rose, held the stem in his mouth in that way which, viewed at a distance, suggests an enormous cancer. The boy ran into the house to get his mothers consent. and the minister know ing that he would get it, took the rose from his mouth, sniffed it, and leaned on the gate with an air of satisfaction. Pretty soon the boy returned in exul,a- | ton.
 Now may go 7" he asked "Wait until tonight, and I'll see. If you be good boy, I'll either take you or let you go with some of the peighbors,' y and the child well knowing that he would accompany his father, despite the neigh bor proviso, skipped away in glee. When his little sister suggested, by means of a "squawl,' that she would like to go, the boy said consolingly:
 "You can, go, for the lions and tigers would want to eat you. Nobody bu, men and boys can go.' When evening came he was in per feet an,ter of excitement, and when the mammoth steam piano" began to squeal, he could no longer restrain him. self, but cried in impatienoe at his fath- CTS seeming unconcern.
 When they entered the menagerie, the boy was So bewildered by curiosities that he scarcely knew which way to turn.
 "This is Bengal tiger" said Mir. Mul- kittie. "There is a sacred ox, and here we have a leopard" Sunday-school children gathered around the minister to receive geological information, perceiving which, the reverend gentleman re-doubled his efforts to instruct "Here is the sea lion."
 What makes him cough so much :'' asked the boy.
 He is not coughing. That's hi. natural outcry."
 though, he'd staid in the water Ill he caught cold. What is thats"
 That is a rhinoceros-"
 "That's a tapir," said man with a red shirt leaning on an iron rod.
 Are you sure asked Mir. Muikittle not enjoying the correction.
 Ought to know, podner; been feedin' 'em for long time.
 Al shall not discnss it with you.n
 What's the maffes with that chump , asked a man vho came along with s bucket of water.
 Said the tapH was rhiEoceros.r
 .The yap!" said the man, as h< walked asay. The Sunday-schooi ch;l. dren. having lost confidence in MT. Mul. littie's knowledge of natural history, lef the gentleman.
 That's lion.'' ! The boy stood for mornen, and gazec