The Forrest City times., 1905-12-15

| intended for miser, with no pepper sauce running from the heart to the arteries and things, add a liver that is white. and nerves that are trembly. and no gall to speak of. why big man is liable to be walked all over by . neryy little man who is spunky. and gets mad and froths at the mouth. have been having great times with | the monkeys. and l guess the manager will make me superintendent of mon | keys, cause they all seem to be stuck on me, and will do anything tell them | to. Pa says they think am some new l kind of monkey, and they look up 1 to me. lead out the big monkeys 1 that ride the goats and dogs. and have a horse race in the ring. and fasten 1 them on the little animals. and when | they ride around the ring on the dogs and goats and ponies, they keep look l ing at me as though they wanted my | approval
 There is one little monkey that sleeps nearly all the time. and I 1 played trick on pa with it that like 10 got me arrested and licked by a man who was mad. A man and woman with a baby in a little wagon were go- 1 ing through the menagerie, and 1t was crowded and they left the baby and wagon in pas charge, near the monkey cage, while they went 10 see the hip- I popetamus. Pa is the most accom- i modating man about holding babies that ever was. The baby was asleep when it's folks left it in the wagon with l pa, but it woke up while they were gone. and pa took it out of the babs wagon and carried it around just az he would at home. and showed 1t the ! animals, and held il up on his shoul- der. and I took the little monkey and put Il in the baby wagon. and 1t went to sleep. and put veil over it. and was standing by the wagon talking with peanut butcher. when the par ents of the baby came back and the woman raised up tho veil To see if the l child was asleep. when the monkey woke up and put its hairy hands up 10 rub is eyes. The monkeys looked up at the woman with beady eyes and began to chatter, and she yelled and her husband took look at the monk. and he was mad They could both see 1t WAS monkey instead of baby. and they asked where the old man with the chin whiskef5 was that they left the baby with, and the peanut butcher said: What. that old guy with the i eheekered vest? Why. he has gone l with the baby over to the lion cage where they are feeding lie lions. Don't you see him holding the baby upon his ahoulder29 By ginger. l never saw TWO people sprint the Way they did
 cause guess they thought pa was sure crazy. and Woald give the baby to tine lions. ButI toid them The old man was all right. and would bring the baby back. and II lie didn't they could have the monkeE cause didn't want them 10 think they were going 10 be losers while attending our show. Then I chdcked the monkey under the chin and said: Maybe this is your baby, cause they change wonderfully i when tHeE get Into snow.
 Well, just had time to put the mon- key back in the cage when l saw that couple surround pa. and the woman ] grabbed the baby out of his arms, and 1 The man tackled pa around the legs be- 1 low he knee. and threw pa down un- i der the ostrich cage. and said. 'sYoa l lidnaper, l am good mind to choke i the life out of you" and he squeezed ! pas windDipe until pas tongue run out, when a canvasman came along and hit the man in the ear, and he ] laid down near a zebra. and the zebra kicked at the man and hi, pa. cause 8 zebra is cross-eyed ard kicks like q woman throws q stone. and 10 ma4 knows where il iisteth
 Pa got up to murder the man that ehuEed him. when the ostrich reached is head out between the bars Of tA, cage and picked pas biz diamond sud off his shirt big as a piece of rocS candy, and swallowed it and Y aai. has the limit, and he called ..ha manager and asked him how he Was going 70 get his diamond stud out of the ostrich. The manager told n 10 go to the dressing room and ask tho woman who has charge of the var robe for the ostrich stomach pump and when he got the stomach pump th, manager said the ostrich would couGh up the diamond stud. Pa went off 10 he dressing room 10 get the ostrich stomach pump, ani l knew there was going 10 be trouble, cause . thought the manager was just string ing pa.
 Well, he went up to the woman in the dressing room, and said he came after her stomach pump, ostrich size, and you'd a died to see the ruction. The woman looked at pa as though he had escaped from sanitarium. and then she seemed to think he was try ing to make game of her, and she said: You old skate. do you know who ycu