Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-10-05

any moment to see yir--... Ia scceds
and go out of the union
There was nothing mere fer me tc
do except to drink my cer cr after.
dinner coffee. aud uoke ny cigarette,
and quit, and ] waas ratting Ilyself on
the back at my Success and squirnin2
around In the chais, Cause The pin in
ray tail hurt my back, hut never said
word The attendant brought II the
coffee and took couple OF swal.
lows, when realized that somebody
had put cayenne pepper into it, and
was hot under the collar, but though
| wa9 burning up inside, | never
peapei, bet just choked and took q
swallow CT water AID vowed TO Kill the
person that made the coffee.
Kept my temper till the trainer
handed me the cigarette and q match
and the first puff l realized that they
had filed the cigarette with snuff,
and after blowing out the smoke | be.
gan to sneeze, and the audience fairly
went wild. | sneezed about eight
~~"1s SAN -AS CFOA OACOHC lu0 pm IN
my spine hurt like thunder, but neve,
lost my temper, till about the seventh
sneeze, when my monkey mask flew or
and then a boy about ny size, right in
front OF me, yelled: 1T amt a mon.
key at all, 1t is little Niger" and he
threw a ripe persimmon and hit me
right In the eye I said right out in
plain English: You're a liar and |
can knock the stufting out Of you
pulled off my dress coat and started
Tor MIN, but pa grabbed me on one
side and the monkey trainer Oh the
other. and they tried to get ne K
return to the monkey character, and
chatter. and pa put my monkey mask
On me, but / struck right there, and
pulled 1t of, and told him and the
managers that would not play mon
key any more with a tail pinned tc
my spine. my stomach full of cayenne
pepper and my nOstrils full of Scotch
snuff, and my face all puckered us
with persimmons
The crowd yelled: Fraud! Fraud!
XIII the bald-headed old man who il
the father Of the monkey" and they
were making a rush to clean out the
show when the dressing-room door
opened to let the hippodrome chariot
racers out. and the way the chariota
scattered the crowd was a caution.
That saved us from serious trouble.
for the chariots run over q lot of ne
groes, which pleased the audience. and
they let US off without killing US
They got me back to the dressing-room
and had to take pair OF pinchers to
get that safety-pin out Of my spine
and on the way to the dressing-room
some one walked on my monkey tail
and pulled it off, and that was dead
loss. Pa sat by me and famed me,
cause l was faint, and then he said:
MY boy. you played your part well,
until the peraimmon hit you, and
then you forgot that you were an
actor. and became yourself, and ]
don't blame you for wanting to punch
that boy who called you q little mig
ger, and said I was your pa. After
this chariot race Is over we will "a
dtOuAu III IIOuI vi IuS SSdLS, ana HQI
the boy, and you can DO him up
Your monkey business was the fea
ture OF the show today"
We went out and found boy thai
looked like the one that sassed me-
but he must have been his big broth,
er, cause when went up to him
and swatted him in the nose, he gava
me black eye, and I I'm q sight.
That evening. at the performance,
we cut out the educated ourang on.
tang. and the lawyer we net ca tie
cars came to the show, and said we
would ell be arrested for not perform,
ing all we advertised, bat be could
settle It for hundred d1uars, and
Ia paid him the money, and he went
out and got Jag and came IN the
show and was going 10 make trouble,
when Pa took him to the cage where
the 40-Yoct boaconstrictor wa3 unco:i
Ing itself, ana the Virginian Cot one
look ct the snake and went through
the side of the tent yelling: I've goa
EN- again. Catch me, somebody"
We get out OF tom before morning,
and nobody vas arrested, except tha
negroes that got run over In the
Chariot race