Evening star., 1912-07-14


on every hand large dominating men in weird costumes
were shouting, @Ths way to the ba-bla-a-a!'
Everybody wanted to sell something to eat "Ee-
mense chewing cho-co-ates!' squawked whisky tenor
with a whisky face. Here's yer hoky, yer poky, yer
five cents package' howed dervsh in white cap
1a o9x Of by IN ali e @
tudes of delrium tremens TALL ugly, gorrilla-taced
spoke follows:
"Atila the Great-he eats-he eats 'em-he eats EN-
alive, alive! Vow They wiggle'
The big barker was turned half away when Bung
spoke at his elbow.
"Wha's you say he eat um?" asked the old China
"Serp-ints! live, Cling, writh-ing serp-intshe
eats emf replied the barker automatically not degn-
ing to look round
aWha' fo'-he hungly?" inquired the truth seeking
aBeat it before croak yez' snared the barker, sud
denly leaning close to Bungs ear The sight of the
mans face caused the Chinamans pigtal to crawl fear
somey at the roots for he recognized in the eatem
alive barker other than Mike the Pig, reformed
Bung stood not upon the of his beating, but
"beat it' at
@Wha' catch um circus?' he asked of a red-capped
official as his sufficiently composed
The official pointed ohcously to wicket past which
throngs of people going into the big tent Bung
got into line and followed the slow-moving crowd.
"Hi! Where's your tcket?' growed voice at his
Bung quailed, but held his ground. A red, ham,
like hand clutched him at the shoulder.
@Tickee? l no catchee! piped Bung struggling to
get away.
@Wel1, gwan and git one Y can't git into this circus
without ticket. Who dye think y are the President
of the United States?"
aI Judge divers Chinaman!" answered Bung with
dignity.
"Olive or lemon, don't care what y are-theres no
side-wallin privilege allowed with this show
The whole line waited impatiently, and the ticket
preparing to remove the blockade by removing
Bung, when ladyike soprano spoke at the Chnamans
ear.
"Bung, come here, please!"
1t was Miss Cecilia Holland, daughter of the prune
magnate the lady whose feelings Bung had mangled
severely when he delivered to her Tomys love note
intended for Cecilia Thorne.
"Whats the matter?" she asked kindly.
II go see circus-nan say no do' was Bung's
brief summary of the situation
Haven't you got ticket?'
"Tickee2" repeated Bung in complete baflement.
@Come here" said Miss Holland She led the old man
and presented Bung with square of pasteboard.
"Give that to the man. she said, "and he'll let you
in
Miss Holland after this graceful exchange of good for
evil rcjoined her laughing companions while Bung,
advancing with the line passed unscathed the ogre by
the door.
THE throng, circng the sawdust under the menagere
: tent, were too absorbed in the terrors of Mogul
and Begun, royal Bengal maneaters and the callow
charms of Pansy, of that infinite army of baby
giraes labeled @rst born in captivity, the throng
absorbed in these marves to note their effect
upon one lonesome, gray haired Chinaman who wan
dered SPELL unable to believe the evidence of his
eye. Tgershow erociousy they glared over their
half -chewed soupbones! Bung had seen pictures of
these striped prodiges in Chinese picture books
Cames-he had beheld caravans of these drouth defy
ing quadrupeds camping outside the city gates his
native land Imprisoned behind bars, though
ing and ferocious mld-eyed water buffalo gazed be
nignly upon All Lee Bung, who grnned reminscently,
recalling how his father had often used these animals
at the pow.
And he wandered from cage to cage the hypnotism
of the ZOO enthrallng him that he utterly forgot
Tommy divers lost shirts and the perdious Gum Box,
in quest of which and whom he had cast himself among
wild beasts in strange surroundings Round and round
went the crowd. Round and round went All Lee Bung.
AS is usual in such cases. vast eddy in the river of
humanity swirled round the monkeys cage, where the
both cid of he barc