The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-03-16

any moment 20 see Virginia seeedo
and 20 ont OF the union
There was nothing more for me 10
do except TO drink my cup of after
dinner coffee. and smoke my cigarette.
and quit. and | was pattine myself on
the back at my success and squirting
around In the chair. cause the pin in
my tail hurt my back. but ! never said
a word The attendant brought In the
coffee and took a couple OF sSal-
lows. when | realized that sonebody
had put cayenne pepper into IT, and
was hot under the collar. but though
was burning mp inside. never
peepei, but just choked and took a
swallow os water and vowed TO XIII the
person that made the coffee.
kept my temper till the trainer
handed me the cigarette and n match.
and the first pun | realized that they
had filed the cigarette with snGff.
and after blowing out the smoke | be-
vent Wild. / sneezed about eight
times. and at every sneeze the pin In
my spine hurt like thunder, but | never
lost my temper. till about the seventh
sneeze when my monkey mask flew of.
and then boy about my size. right in
front OF me. yelled: 1T AMT a mon
key at all. II is a little Niger" and he
threw a ripe persimmon and hit me
right in the eye. said right out in
plain English: You're liar and
can knock the stufIing out OF you
pulled OFF my dress coat and started
for him. but pa grabbed me on one
side and the monkey trainer or the
other and they tried to get me 10
return TO the monkey character. and
chatter, and pa put my monkey mask
on me, but | struck right there. and
pulled II off, and told him and the
managers that | would not play mon
key any more with a tail pinned TO
my spine. my stomach fun OF cayenne
pepper and my nostrils fun Of Scotch
snuff, and my face all puckered up
with persimmons
The crowd yelled Fraud, Fraud
the father OF the monkey" and they
were making a rush to clean ont the
show when the dressing-room door
opened 20 let the hippodrome chariot
racers out. and the way the charlots
scattered the crowd was a caution.
That saved us from serious trouble.
for the chariots run over a lot OF ne
groes. which pleased the audience. and
they let US OF without killing us.
They got me back TO the dressing room
and had TO take a pair Of pinchers 10
get that safety-pln out of my spine.
and on the way 10 the dressing room
some one walked on my monkey tail
and pulled it of. and that was a dead
loss. Pa sat by me and famed me,
cause vas faint, and then he said:
My boy you played your part well.
until the persimmon 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 a little mig
ger. and said | was your pa. After
this chariot race Is over We will 60
around in front Of the seats. and find
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 that
looked like the one that sassed me.
but he must have been his big broth
or. cause when | went up 70 him
and swatted him in the nose. he gave
me a black eye, and l am a sight
That evening. at the performance.
We cut out the educated oursng ou-
Aang, and the lawyer we met on the
cars came to the show. and said We
would all be arrested for not perform
ing all we advertised. but he could
settle 1t for a hundred dollars. and
pa paid him the money. and he went
out and got a jag and came in the
show and was going to make trouble,
when pa took him to the cage where
the i0-foOt boaconstrictor was uncoil-
ing itself. and the Virginian got one
look at the snake and went through
the side Of the tent yelling. I've got
EN- again. Catch me. somebody"
We got out OF town before morning,
and nobody was arrested, except the
negroes that got gun over in the
chariot raoa