The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-27

our clothes for the afternoon perform
ance. As we passed through the men
agerie tent, dripping, every animal set
up a yell, as much as to say: There
may be you will give CAYENNE pepper
| to a piOus sacred COW again, confound
! YOU and that convinceS me that an
| imalS are human.
The last week mas been the hardest
on pa of any week since we have been
| out with the circus. The trouble with
| pa is that he wants to be Johnny on
the spot as the boys say, and if any
| thing breaks he volunteers to go to
work and fix it, and if anybody is sick
or disabled, he wants to take their
! place as he sage so he will learn
| everything about the circus, and be
competent to run a show alone next
/ year.
But it was a mean trick the princi-
! pal owner OF the show played on pa at
| Canton, Q. You see John l.. Sullivan
used to do a boxing act with this show,
years ago, and everybody likes John,
and when the shows up where the
shows gives a performance he has hte
| freedom of the whole place, and every
| body about the show is ready to fall
over them selves 20 do John l.. q SER
vice.
Well Sullivan showed up at Canton,
and he went everywhere, all the fore
noon, and met all the Old timers, and
at the afternoon performance he was
awfully jolly.
John was standing beside the ring
when the Japanese JugglerS were jug
Cling, and he leaned against a pole.
Pa came in from the menagerie tent,
and he didn't know Sullivan, and
when he saw Sullivan holding the
pole up, pa said to the boss proprietor
I,r+ h f1f h. tnr for ~
with the show ought to be called
down, or put out.
The boss said to pa: You go TAX
him by the ear and put him out" and
pa, who is brave as a lion, started for
Sullivan and the boss Wnked at the
circus men, and pa went UP to Sulll-
van and took hold of Johns neck with
both hands. and said: Come on out of
here"
Well. sir. we ought to have moving
pictures Of what followed. Sullivan
turned on pa, and groWled just like
lion Then he took pa around the
waist and held him under his arm,
and picked up a piece of board and
Slated pa just as though pa was a
child, and the audience just yelled,
and pa called to the circus men for
help, but they just laughed.
Pa got a chance at the fat man and
he hit him in the jaw, but it did not
hurt Sullivan, only made him mad. He
took pa up by the collar and Whirled
him around until pa was dizzy, and
then he started with him for the men
agerie tent and called to the boss can
vassman: Bill, come on and tell me
which is the hungriest lion, and | will
feed him with this cold meat
Pa yelled cause he thought he was
in the hands of an escaped lunatic,
and the circus hands came and took
him away. Then the owner told pa
who Sullivan was, and pa almost
tainted. But finally, after breathing
hard for a while, pa went up to Sulli-
van and shook his hand, and said:
MFR. Sullivan, you must excuse me. If
! had known you were the great John
L.. | would not have licked you Sui
Ivan looked at pa and said: We'll,
you are a wonder, old man, and you
did do me up" and pa and Sullivan
became great friends. Since then pa
is pretty chesty, cause the circus men
point him out to the jays as the man
who whipped John l.. Sullivan.