The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-02-09

yell and | thought could smell neRh
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 70! place TO
/ roast, came along ~nd 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, IL worked like a charm,
and the cannibas made a rush for tde
Indians and drove them away just as
/ they had lig'ued tue fire around pa,
and We were not n minute too soon.
After the Indians had skcdaddled for
be- woods, and we cut the cords that
found pa, the cannibals went to work
and skun the dogs and began to COOK
/ them, and pa looked on, until it made
him squrmish, but he was SO tickled
a, being saved from the indians, that
Doc tried to be a good fellow with the
. cannibals. | guess II would have been
/ am right. only the cannibals got 10
| drinking the Philadelphia beer, and
/ then it was all of, cause roast deg
! wasn't good enough for them, aud
! they wanted TO roast pa.
First they offered pa dog to eat, but
/ Dee had sworc off on dog. and passed
m il, and that made the cannlbal8
rai. and they got ready to roast pa
/ md / guess they would have eaten
/ Iiu half cooked, II 1t hadn't been for
. Dee performers and freaks who had
/ missed their pet dogs, and the circus
/ hands told them the cannibals had
bust gone to the woods with mess OF
logs TO roast for dog feast.
Woll they were just getting a fire
mound pa and he was giving the
rand hailing sigh Of distress, when
'b" performers headed by the Fat
oman. whose peeled Mexican dog
as lost in the shuttle, came in
mungst the cannibals and pa and the
ether dogs were rescued. in the
aruodcst fight ever saw. The per
nrmcrs just walked right over the
lHutbals and maulcd them with
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
| Hhvn pa came up from the stake
! Nh,re they were going to burn him,
and congratulated her on recovering
! q. oh IA 4
um OF being the leading cannibal.
and that he was the ono who put up
the whole job to steal the dogs. She
Iabbed 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 weineTs, which was
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 II anything
goes right. somebody else gets the
credit. and think he would resign II
II was not for his pride. After the
trouble about the Indians and the
cannibals the manager called pa up
and reprimanded him for INDUCING
the tribes in their wild orgies, and
said we couldn't maintain discipline
as long MS pa mixed up with them and
encouraged them in such things
Pa tried to explain that he was the
| tTif ,F . Ia, u
the dog roast, but the manager dis
missed pa by telling him not to let II
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 'ycrtiso that the cannibals
in our show would give an exhibition
Of roasting and eating human being,
and to offer a reward for anybody that
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
find such Il man. He thinks he may
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. | don't know.
This circus business Is too much for
me, cause 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 | pass the
monkey cage they turn their backs on
me, as though did not belong to their
set. When a fellow gets so low that
monkeys feel above him, and throw
out sarcastic remarks when he goes
by. 1t Is time to change your luck
some way.