The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29
Second Adventure Of Profess
SOr McCabe, Physical CuIturist V

business wasn't so worse at fifty per
All this time Pinckney was as busy as
the man at the ticket window. only drop
pin in once or twice after dark to see
if Rajah was stayin' good The show was
being knocked into shape. and Pinckney
was master of ceremonies / knew he
was gOin 10 work Rajah in somehow;
but he didn't have any time to put me
next and / never Jumbied until he'd
sprung the trick
About the third dav things began to
hum around the Tcynbee place gang
of tent men came with round top and
put 1t up. They strung d lot OF side
show banners. too, and built lemonade
stands in the shrubbery. II IL hadn't been
for the Johnnie boys in hot clothes stroll
lin around you'd thought d real one
ring wagon show had struck town. But
say, that bunch of clowns and bum bare
back riders had papas who could have
given EN- FOrepaugh outfit every birth
day.
Early next morning I got a tip from
PinclIney to sneak Rajah out of the sta
bic and over into the dressin' tent The
way that old chaps eyes glistened when
he saw the banners and things was a
wonder. He sure did know heap, that
Rajah He was as excited and anxious
as a new chorus girl at a fall opening,
but when 1 gave him the word he held
Just before the grand entry got
peek at the house, and IL was swell
mob: same foIks that you'll see at tina
Horse Show only there wasn't no dol
want on exhibition They was Just out
for fun, and l guess they know how to
have it, SEEM that's their steady Job.
Number four on the program was put
down as. Mr.. Lionel Pinckney Ogden
Bruce. with his wonderfully lifelike ele-
plant, Raj3h.' 1 heard the barker gtvtIi'
his song an dance about the act, and he
got a great hand. Then Pinckney goes OH
and the crowd hOWls.
You see he'd had a loose canvas suit.
like pajamas. made for RaJah. and
rritF. ufrorn
to look something like elephant hide. but
some of the straw had been left stick
ing through1 the seams With Rajah
seWed inside of this. he looked like rank
imitation Of himself.
Fake faker' they yells at EN- as
they showed up. Who's playing the hind
that They threw peanuts and apples
at Rajah. and generally enjoyed them
Then all of a sudden Pinckney pulls
the pickering string, yanks off the pad
ding and out walks old Rdjdh as chip
per as Billy Jerome. Fetch EN-? Wen.
say! You've seen a gang of school kids
when the sleight-of-hand man makes a
mass over the egg in the hat and pulls
cut a live rabbit? These folks acted the
same way They hOwled. they hee-
hawed, they jumped up and down on the
They'd been lookin' for the same old eie-
plant with two men inside. the good old
chestnut that they'd been tryin' to laugh
was sprung on 'em they were as uckled
as a baby with a jack-in-tne-bOX. 1t
wouldn't have got more'n one laugh out
Of a crowd of everyday folks. but that
smell mob just went wild over it. II was
new stunt, done special for them by one
of their own crowd.
Was PinclneY it, Why. he was the
whole show, They kept him and Rajah
in the ring for half an hour, and they let
loose every time Rajah lifted his trunk
or Tapped his ears. When he got 'em
quiet Pinckney made a speech. He said
he was happy to say that the grand door
prize, as announced on the hand-bils. had
been drawn by Mrs. jeremiah Toynbce
and that Rajah was the prize. Would
she take it with her. or have it sent?
You've heard of Mrs. Jerry. She's
real sport she is. She's the one that stir
red up ali that fuss by takin' her tame
panther down to Bailey's Beach with her
And Mrs. Jerry wasn't gOiR' back on her
reputation or missin' any two-page ads.
in the papers.
Jerry.
Maybe they thought that was all part
of Pinckneys fake. They didn't know
how hard we'd tried to unload Rajah. We
didn't do any liugerin' around. While the
show gOin' on we sneaks out of the
back of the tent with Rajah and across
to the stable The rest was easy. He'd
got so used TO seem me there that [
reckon he'd sized it up for my regular
hang-Out. so when we ties him up fast
and slides out easy, one at a time, hs
never mistTusts-
professor says Pinckney, ut seems
to ME that this is an excellent OppOrtUn-
ity for to go away
It's all of that says 1, land let's
make it quick shift
We did. Goggles shook up up some on
the way down. but we hit Broadway in
time for breakfast.
Didn't happen to see Pinckney at the
| last Horse Show did you? Well, you'd
never known him for the same ambulance
waiter that dropped into the studio that
day. He's been on the rock for two
months now and his nerves are as steady
as a truck horse There's more meat on
him. too than there was. / don't have to-
have a dust pan ready in case 1 should
jolt him one.
But say, next time any two-by-four
chappy floats in here for a private course
l gets plans an Specifications before Z
takes him on. No more Rajah business
I'm mine See2