The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-10-31


meat and bananas and shouted ali
right, but when he was taken out OF
his cage to be paraded he whispered
to his employer:
do l get the back salary?'
Go on with you!"
| do get it?"
NIT"
| Then occurred thing that never
happened on this green earth before
and will never happen again. Fam
threw off his yoke of slavery then and
there. He yelled He whooped. He
cast away his chains, and after Selling
Aunt Hannah Doty by the body and
throwing her across the sawdust ring
he made break for the tent entrance
and went running down the highway.
No more raw meat and bananas! NO
more greatest exhibition on earth, =
for the Ringtailed Circus.
But what has all this to do with
Miss Kitty Dorland and Mr.. Gerald
! Walters? Simply that Mr.. Walters
didn't know that Miss Kitty was with
| in a hundred miles of him, and vice
| versa.
Simply that Mr.. Walters was at the
circus and Miss Kitty wasn't. Simply
that Mr. Walters came very near be-
| ing rough-housed instead of Aunt Han
nah. Simply that when "zam" left the
| tent Mr.. Walters was at his heels, and
Miss Kitty was walking in her grand
fathers daisy covered meadow a mile
away.
Mr.. Walters was a good sprinter,
and he put forth every effort to over
haul the dangerous menace striving to
escape from bondage and become a
terror to peaceful community. He
couldn't gain a foot, but he was game
to hang to the trail as long as he
could.
The wild man took the middle of the
highway and held it until he came OPP
posite the meadow Miss Kitty was
sitting under a tree, weaving wreath
for somebody's brow. "Zam" wanted
to get to the woods to shake off pur-
suit and he must pass her within
few feet. She saw him-she shrieked
she sprang up-she saw Mr.. Walters
numbering along, and then she tainted
and keeled over. Something told her
that it was a Wild man from Africa,
and that he intended to make cat's
meat of her, and it was quite sensible
of her to faint. She tainted so quick
ly that she didn't hear him call to
her:
Don't be scared, Missy! I'm only
man in disguised"
And she was dead to the world as he
checked his pace long enough to add:
II don't blame her a darned bit!
Hope 1t will cost old Ringtail ten
bones extra!"
'Zam" got into the woods and pur-
suit was off, Mr.. Walters, putting and
blowing, came up to find good look
ing girl huddled among the daisies.
and he ran to a brook and got water
in his hat and sopped her face, max
ing the usual mess Of 1t. BY and by
Miss Kitty found herself sitting up
and saying:
ooh, that horrid thinG!"
But it's gone"
"And you were so brave! Please
take me home"
At a slow walk, and leaning heavily
on his arm, grandpa's was reached. IL
was reached again that evening, and
the next day and the next. In fact ME-.
Walters felt it his duty to pay call
at least once day until sure that the
wild man had returned to HIS mother
in Michigan. And all this resulted in
Deacon Chambers speaking from the
postoffice steps for the third time and
saying:
Darn my hat. but what do you fel-
lers think now?"
What is it?"
"That chipmunk killer and the gal
that tainted away are sittin' up nights
together, and if that don't mean love
and marriage I'll saw the horns or
my best cow!"
DOWNRIGHT. 1912, by the Mcclure News
paper Syrdicate)