The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-03-31

howled pitiful. and the, lion raised up
his head and looked 1t them through
the bars as though he was saying. In =
snarling way. what you grave rob-
bers bowling about? Cant you keep
rtlll and let the car of all the animals
enjoy his after dinuer nap?"
Just then the hyenas kicked what
was left of the hornets nest under the
bars into his side of the cage, and he
put his foot on II and grQwled, and
about hundred hornets gave him his.
He gave an Abyssintan (. cough that
woke all" the animals, and then the
hornets scattered and before knew
1t the zebras were dancing q snake
dance and all Of thsm were howaiag
as though they were in the ark, hum
cry, and the ark had landed on Mount
AIarat
Just then one Of tho assistant mana
gers beckoned to me to lead in my
procession and we lighted the can
dles In our Chinese lanterns. / didu't
stop to see how the animals got along
with the hornets. but couldn't help
thinking that II one hornets nest
could raise such row. what would =
hundred or 80 do when we got to going
In the other tent?
oh, II had only oied when l was
young, never would shave witnessed
that sight. The band played, "There'll
be Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night" and pas crowI of white trash
marched around the big outside ring
shouting, Bryan! Bryan! What's the
matter with Bryant" and the audience
got up on Its hind legs and yelled
that Is the white folks did-and then
We marched around tae other way, and
yelled. Teddy is the stun! Teddy is
the stunt" and the negroes In the au-
dience yelled. Then my crowd met
pas crowd right by the middle ring,
where the elephants mad formed the
pyramid that closes their act, and the
Japanese jugglers were in the right
hand ring, and party of female tum-
Tiers, with low-neckei stockings were
standing at attention in the left-hand
ring.
There was no intention Of having a
riot. but when pa yelled, Whats the
matter with Bryan?" a negro in my
crowd yelled, That's what's the mat
ter with Bryan" and he hit pa over the
head with his Chinese lantern, loaded
with warm hornets nest as big as
n football, which hal taken fire from
the candle. Pa dropped his lantern
and began to fight hornets, and then
all the white trash in pas bunch
rushed up and began to whack my
poor down-trodden negroes with their
Chinese lanterns. OF course, my fell
lows couldn't stand still and te
mauled, and the candles had warmed
our hornets nests so the hornets were
crawling out to see what was ths trou-
bic. Then every negro whacked a
white man with a hornets nest and
the audience fairly went wild with ex-
c.tement.
The hornets got Dusy and went for
the elephants and the Japanese Jug
glers, and they stampeded like they
never met hornet tefore. k
The female tumblers found hornets
on their stockings. and everywhere,
ano they gave female war whoop and |
rushed for the dressing room. The
elephants got stung and they came
down on their pyramid and went out |
to the menagerie tent trumpeting. and
switching their trunks. The negroes
and the white politicians were getting
into race war. SO the circus hands |
rushed in and separated them, and my
negroes found that the fetty had |
them rub on themselves did rot keep |
the hornets from stinging them, 60
they stampeded.
Then the hornets began to go for the !
audience, and the women yelled MUIR
deI and pulled down their dresses to
cover their shoes, and the men got |
stung and the whole audience stam-
reded into the open air.
Then met pa, and he was sight,
and | never got stung once. The man.
ayers tried to get tho band to play
some tune that would soothe and hold
the audience till an explanation could
be made, but somebody had thrown a
hornets nest under the band seats and |
lie horn players got stung on the lips
so they couldn't play, and the band all
lit out for a beer garden. Before
realized 1t the show was over, and
detective that detects for the show had
me collared and brought me up before
a meeting Of the managers. Pa was
The prosecuting attorney, and tod
them that didn't run my politics fair,
cause had brought in lot CT ring
ers. The managers asked me how the
hornets nests camc 10 be in the Chi
nese lanterns. told them they would
have to ask the negroes for how was
to know what weapons they had con-
ccaled about their persons, any more
than pa was responsible II his politi-
clans carried revolvers.
They said that looked reasonable,
but they believed l.new more abou.
1t than anybody. but AZ We had to
pack up the show and make the next
town they wouldn't lynch me till the