Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-21

yell, and thought could smell flesh
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 q dog
that they were looking for place to
roast, came along and 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 a charm,
and the cannibais made q rush for the
Indians and drove them away just as
they had lighted the fire around pa,
and we were not 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 sqnirmish, but he was so tickled
at being saved from the Indians, that
he tried to be good fellow with the
cannibals. | 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 OF on dog, and passed
on it, and that made the cannibals
mad, and they got ready to roast pa,
and guess they would have eaten
him half cooked, if it hadn't been for
i the performers and freaks who had
missed their pet dogs, and the circus
hands told them the cannibals had
just gone to the woods with mess of
dogs to roast for a dog feast.
i Well, they were just getting a fire
around pa, and he was giving the
grand mailing sigh of distress, when
the performers, headed by the fat
woman, whose peeled Mexican dog
was lost in the shuttle. came in
amongst the 'cannibals, and pa and the
other dogs were rescued, in the
darnedest fight 1 ever saw. The per-
formers just walked right over the
cannibals, and mauled them with
I stakes, and all the dogs that had not
been killed were pulled away from
the heather, and saved. The fat
woman got her dog all right, and
when pa came up from the stake
where they were going to burn him,
and congratulated her on recovering
her dog, she turned on pa and accused
i him of being the leading cannibal.
and that he was the one who put I'D
the whole job to steal the dogs. She
Jabbed him with parasol, but pa
was innocent
The Indians got back to the tent
i along towards morning, and the can
nibals went back with us, and we had
to feed them on weiners, which was
i the nearest to roast aog we could get
for them at that time of night.
Pa seems to get it in 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 would resign if
it was not for his pride. After the
trouble about the Indians and the
cannlhals the manager called pa I'D
and reprlmanded him for indulging
the tribes in their wild orgies, and
said we couldn't maintain discipline
as long as pa mixed up with them and
|
Pa tried to explain that he was the
victim instead of being the cause of
the dog roast, but the manager dis
missed pa by telling him not to let it
occur again Then to show the incon-
sistency of the manager, he ordered
pa to go On ahead of the show to New
York, and advertise that the cannibals
IN our show would give an exhibition
OF roasting and eating human being.
and to offer reward for anybody that
4 would consent to be roasted and eat
en- in public.
Pa has gone to New York to look
for somebody who will take the posi-
ton of meat for the cannibals, and he
is instructed to spare no expense to
lind such man. He thinks he NAV
find somebody connected with the
Equitable Life insurance scandal. who
has lost all desire to live any longer,
and who will gladly go into this "mu-
! tual' scheme. I don't know.
This circus business is too much for
| me, cause l am losing friends all the
time. Even the monkeys have got so
| they seem to be ashamed to be seen
talking to me, and when l pass the
monkey cage they turn their backs on
ne, as though did not belong to their
set. When fellow gets so low that
monkeys feel above him, and throw
out sarcastic remarks when he goes
1 by, it is time to change your luck
4 some wav