The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-12-22

II his heart Is one OF these little ones
intended for a miser, with no pepper
sauce running from the heart 70 me
arteries ana things. aud liver that
IS white. and nerves that are tremply'
and no gall 10 speak OF, why a bis man
is liable 70 be walked all over by
nervy little man who Is spunky. and
gets mad and froths at the mouth.
nave peen having great times with
the monkeys, and guess the manager
will make me superintendent OF mon
keys. cause they all seem 70 be stuck
on me. and will do anything tell them
TO. Pa says they think am some new
kind OF a monkey. and they look up
| TO me. | lead out the big monkeys
that ride the goats and dogs. and have
horse race in the ring. and iasteh
them on the little animals, and when
they ride around the ring on the dogs
and goats and ponies, they keep look
ing at me as though they wanted my
approval
There is one little monkey that
sleeps nearly all the time, and
played trick on pa with It that like
to got me arrested and licked by man
who was mad a man and woman
with a baby in little wagon were 60
ing through the menagerie, and ii was
crowded, and they left the baby and
wagon in pas charge, near the monkey
cage. while they went 10 see the hip
I 4. . f.
| modating man about holding babies
| that ever was The baby was asleep
when its folks left 1t in the wagon with
pa. but Il woke up while they were
gone. and pa took 1t out Of the baby
wagon and carried 1t around just as
he would at home. and showed 1t the
animals. and held il up on his Shout
| der. and | took the little monkey and
put il in the baby wagon, and it went
to sleep, and | put veil over 1t, and
was standing by the wagon talking
with a peanut butcher, when the par
ents of the baby came back. and the
woman raised up the veil to see II the
child was asleep, when the monkey
woke up and put its hairy hands up TO
rub its eyes The monkeys looked
up at the woman with beady eyes and
began TO chatter, and she yelled and
her husband took a look at the monk.
and he was mad. They could both see
Il was a monkey instead of a baby,
and they asked where the old man with
the chin whiskers was that they left
the baby with. and the peanut butcher
said: What. that old guy with the
checkered vest? Why, he has gone
with the baby over to the lion cage,
where they are feeding the lions. Don't
you see him holding the baby upon
his shoulder" BY ginger. never saw
two people sprint the way they did
cause guess they thought pa was
sure crazy, and would give the baby
to the lions. But l told them the old
man was all right, and would bring
the baby back. and If he didn't they
could have the monkey, cause didn't
J want them to think they were going e
Re losers while attending our show
; Then | chucked the monkey under the
chin and said: Maybe this is YOU
: baby, cause they change wonderfully
} when they get into show"
Well Just had time to put the mon
key back in the cage when | saw tina
couple surround pa, and the woman
grabbed the baby out of his arms, an,
the man tackled pa around the legs be
low the knee, and threw pa down un
der the ostrich cage, and said: "Yol
: kidnaper. am a good mind to chok
the life out OF you" and he squeezed
pas windpipe until pas tongue rul
out, when a canvasman came alonl
and hit the man in the ear. and h
laid down near zebra, and the zebr
kicked at the man and hit pa, cause
zebra is cross-eyed and kicks like
woman throws a stone, and no ma
knows where 1t listeth.
Pa got UP to murder the man tina
choked him, when the ostrich reache
its head out between the bars Of tn
cage and picked pas big diamond stu
off his shirt. big as a piece of roc
| candy. and swallowed it, and pa sal
! that's the limit. and he called tn
manager and asked him how he wa
going to get his diamond stud out {
the ostrich. The manager told p
to go to the dressing room and ask III
woman who has charge of the ware
robe for the ostrich stomach puml
and when he got the stomach pump tn
manager said the ostrich would coug
UP the diamond stud. Pa went o
to the dressing room TO get Ii
ostrich stomach pump. and | kne
there was going to be trouble, 'caus
I thought the manager was just strin
ing pa.
d: Well. he went up to the woman
70 the dressing room, and said be cam
le after her stomach pump. ostrich siz
ct and you'd died to see the ructio
Id The woman looked at pa as though
Id had escaped from a sanitarium, en-
he then she seemed to think he was tr.