Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-15
BY HOLMAN r. DAY, in the Boston
Herald.

CneerlullN Wiling, COlleCJlNelg anu III |
dividually, to take ship at Eastport,
Me-. and return by sea to Boston for a |
fresh start. The horses were CALLED |
and lame. The elephant was so foot
sore that she grunted dismally every
time scuffling foot planked itself
down on the dusty turnpike. The wa.
CONS we're rackety from their joltings
along the country roads. The whole
outfit was so dispirited that the gilt
MUSES. on the band wagon still had
their eyes hopelessly plugged with the
mud that had been spattered from the
soggy highways two weeks before in
Hancock county rainstorm.
The Merritt 4 Wells aggregation of
wonders" was not a modern special
train show. IL was an across.the-
country circus, exhibiting daytimc2
and rumbling past sleeping farm.
houses in the dusky watches of the
night or soaring pastured steers in the
gray of dawn. The 'longshore tour of
eastern Maine. with a week.long rain
to dampen the gayety of nations, with
bunny roads and mighty distances be.
tween towns, influenced Mr.. Merritt to
sulphurously canvass the situation
with the attentive Mr.. Wells. with the
result that the tramp steamer Red Tar
was chartered at Eastport to carry the
show back TO the Hub. The trip would
allow the most of a week for general
resting and furnishing up, and at the
end of that time the circus would be
landed in locality where the villages
to use Mr.. Merritts expression -
would not be as skerce as the lemons
il. side.show lemonade
The Red Tar, an antiquated side
wheel steamer had been retired from
the Halifax run a few years before
and was doing excursion work and odd
Jobs The Merritt 4 Wells clown had
studied Latin in his high school days.
He called the steamer Emeritus, side
wallupus. jus moyibus." Her captain
did not dare TO take the outside route
that is followed by the stanch st. John
steamers. He chung to the coast line,
went inside the Crumples, and. after
making Jonesport. swashed pattering.
ly around Petit Menan point, crossed
Frenchmans bay and stumbled along
in a swirling fog up Eggemoggin
reach.
Wed rather have more speed and
less scenery Cap" growlcd the impa-
tient Merritt. lounging against the
front of the wheelhouse and gazing
sourly out past the floundering bow.
Cant you cut away from these isl.
ands and slide across straight tor
Boston,"
The captain, braced in the wheel.
house. spat unanimously between the
straddled legs of the first pilot, and
then hung the swapping banner of his
beard out of the narrow window.
IF should strike for Boston
across the gulf" said he. 81 might land
your outfit in a place where ye cam
buy circus licenses. The Red Tar used
TO be all right for outside work once
on a time, but after a while these ole
folks have to be humoTed."
The weather looks fairly decent
anyway" Merritt grumbled. Ever
such an old skimming dish as this
ought to be good for an August outside
trip"
The skipper made no reply, but
selling the rope of the echo whistle
footed sharply. The sound came ella
moring back from wooded cliffs tha
were hidden by the fog.
Two points of, Jeff," the skippe,
remarked to the man at the wheel
We're pullin' on to Steeple Head.
Merritt, finding that the captain wal
wholly engrossed in his conversation
with the surrounding rocks and bluffs
through the mediumship OF his whis
ties echoes, turned away with 9
snort of disgust. He met Wells stroll
ling along the saloon decks prone
made, his coat collar turned up agains
the fog drippings.
Guess we're goin' to have a storm,
suggested Wells.
What makes you think so?" Merritt
asked rather tartly.
oh, Cephas is at 1t this forenoon
He has been making such a hooral
that we we had to throw canvas owe
the cage"
That's only superstition - thi
thinking that animals know what
going to happen" growled Merritt
continuing on his stroll.
Cephas was the tiger of the "consoI
dated menagerie." He was watery
eyed old stager, who in his two dec
AIDES of travel had surveyed so man,
thousands of wide.staring human
trailing past his cage that he had lon
ago lost interest in all things excep
his daily raw meat and the weather
He complained in rancous yowls II h
didn't get his meat; he deplored /
still more rancous yowls If he did &c
the weather-stormy weather. Som
animals trainers contend that tiger
anticipate by a sixth sense all sorts {
impending trouble-especially storm
Others claim that old tigers grow rhel
matte after long confinement, and the
when the weather grows heavy tn
twinges commence.
Be that as II may, Cephas was ce
tainly in no amiable mood that morl
ing in Eggemoggin reach. Since tn
foggy daybreak he had been jerkin
his shopworn tail impatientiy an
snarling his choler.
His neck was ruffed and ridged a
his excitement increased. occasiona