The Forrest City times., 1906-02-02

yell, and l thought 1 could smell f1esh burning. Oh. but was scared for fear they would burn pa alive.
 Just then the man who had charge of our cannibals. who each had dog that they were looking for place to roast, came along and l told him about the Indians corn roast. and he ordered the cannibals to go drive the Indians away from their fire and roast their dogs. Well, it worked like @ charm. and the cannibaIs made a rush for the Indians and drove them away just as they had lighted the fire around pa, and We were not a minute too soon. After the Indians had skedaddied for the woods, and We cut the cords that bound pa, the cannibals went to work and skun the dogs. and began to cook them. and pa looked on. until it made him squirmish. but he was so tickled at being saved from the Indians. that he tried to be good fellow with the cannibals. l guess it would have been all right, only the cannibals got to drinking the Philadelphia beer, and then it was all off, cause roast dog wasn't good enough for them, and they wanted to roast pa
 First they offered pa dog to eat. but he had swore off on dog, and passed on it, and that made the cannibals mad, and they got ready to roast pa, and I guess they would have eaten him half cooked if it hadn't been for the performers and freaks who had missed their pet dogs, and the circus hands told them the cannibals had l just gone to the woods with a mess of l dogs to roast for a dog feast.
 l Well. they were just getting 8 fire around pa, and he was giving the grand hailing sigh of distress, when the performers, headed by the fat woman, whose peeled Mexican dos was lost in the shuttle, came in amongst the cannibals, ard "a and the other dogs were rescued. in the darnedest fight ever saw The per. formers just walked right over the cannibals, and mauled them with stakes, and all the dogs that had not l been killed were pulled away from the heathen, and saved. The fat woman got her dog all right. and when pa came up from the stake where they were going to burn h,m and congratulated her on recovering her dog, she turned OF pa and accused him of being the leading cannibal, and that he was the one who put up the whole job to steal the dogs. She 1 jabbed him with a parasol, but pa was innocent.
 The Indians got back to the tent along towards morning. and the can. nibals went back with US. and We had to feed them on weiners. which Was the nearest to roast aog We could gei Tor them at that time Of night.
 Pa seems to get t il the neck in this show, cause everything that goes wrong is laid to him. and If anything goes right. somebody else gets the credit, and think he woald resign ii it was not for his pride. After taf trouble about the Indians end taf cannibals the manager called La |. and reprimanded him f5F iaaa,eing the tribes in their wild orgies. agd said We couldn't maintain GiseiElhe as long as pa mixed up with tham aal encouraged them in srch things
 Pa tried to explain that he vas tsc victim instead of being the use C the dog roast. but. the manager c.s missed pa by telling him noi |, lef Il occur again. Then to show taa incoa sistency of the manager, te ordered pa to go on ahead of the show ta New York, and advertise that the taoniba's in our show would EIvc an exhibition Of roasting and eating q taman being and to offer rewarl for anybody t.a would consent to De roasted a9l | en in public
 Pa has gone to New York ta lSep for somebody who will take t8e uD.i ton of meat for the eannl6alS. a11 h is instructed to spare no expense {. find such man. He thinks Ia mal find some body conneetaI xita ta, Equitable Life insurance scandal. Vh, has lost all desire 10 lie any l3aset and who will gladly go into tais "mu tual scheme. l don't know.
 This circus business is too arch fo me, cause l am losing friends al tn time. Even the monkeys have got st they seem to be ashamed to le see, talking to me. and when pass th monkey cage they turn their backs oi me, as though I did not belong to thei set. When fellow gets so low tha monkeys feel above him, and thro, out sarcastic remarks when he zoe by, 1t is time to change your lac some way.