The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-11-07

morrow or | quit"
I'll giye YOU ten of it. if we have
luck" as the reply.
Il want every silver of IT."
"Wha's biting yOu?"
I'm mol playing wild man for my
health
"You know you can't strike another
lob if YOU leave me, while | can get
a dozen fellows to fill your place"
That MAS about all. except that
.Zam" planned plan to be carried
out at Farmyille, and 1t was carried
out. lie went ahead and ate his raw
meat and bananas and shouted all
right but when he was taken out OF
his cage to be paraded he whispered
to his employer:
"Do get the back salary"
Go on with you!"
"Do get it,"
"Nit."
Then occurred a thing that never
happened on this green earth before
and will never happen again. "zam"
threw off his yoke of slavery then and
there. lie yelled. He whooped. He
cast away his chains. and after seizing
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 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 Fam" left the
tent Mr. Walters was at his heels, and
Miss Kitty was walking in her grand
fathers daisy covered meadow u mile
away.
Mr.. Walters was a good Splinter,
and he put forth every effort to over
/ haul the dangerous menace striving to
escape from bondage and become .
terror TO a peaceful community. He
couldn't gain foot. but he was game
to hang to the trail as long as he
could.
Tho y id man took the middle OF
highway and held it until he came :
| positr the meadow. Miss Kitty v 5
sitting under tree. weaving q wrca ,
| for somebody's brow. Fam wanted
| to Gcl 10 the woods to shake off pur-
suit. and he must pass her within a
few feet. She saw him-she shrieked
she sprang up She saw Mr.. Walters
lambtring along, and then she tainted
and keeled over Something tod her
that it was Wild man from Africa,
and that he intended to make cats
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 a
man in disguised"
And she was dead to the world as he
checked his pace long enough to add:
81 don't blame her a darned bit!
Hope it will cost old Ringtai ten
bones extra."
"Zam" got into the woods and pur
suit was off. Mr. Walters, putting and
blowing. came up to find a good look
ing girl huddled among the daisies
and he ran to brook and got water
in his hat and sopped her face, max
ing the usual mess of it. BY and b!
Miss Kitty found herself sitting W
and saying:
! ooh, that hoirid thing
but it's gone"
"And you were SO brave! Please
take me home"
At slow walk. and leaning heavil!
on his arm. grandpa's was reached. i
was reached again that evening, ant
the next day and the next. In fact Mr.
Walters felt it his duty to pay cal
at least once day until sure that thu
wild man had returned to his mothe
in Michigan. And all this resulted II
Deacon Chambers speaking from TIL
postoffice steps for the third time ant
saying:
Darn my hat. but what do you fel
lers think now"
What is it,"
THAT chipmunk killer and the ga
that tainted away are sittin' up night
, together, and if that don't mean low
, and marriage I'll saw the horns OF
. my best GOVT"
| Copyright, 1912. by the Mcclure News