Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-11-02

Wild man who could run down az %
trich had said to his employer:
1--WE got to have my back salary to-
morrow or quit"
"In give you ten Of 1t, II we have
luck" was the reply.
1T want every silver OF it," ~
"What's biting your"
I'm not playing wild man for my
health"
"You know you can't strike another
Job IL you leave me, while l can get
a dozen fellows to fill your place"
That was about all. except that.
"Zam" planned a plan to be carried
out at Farmville and 1t was carried
out He went ahead and ate his raw
meat and bananas and shouted all
right, but when he was taken out or
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. 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 andy
throwing her across the sawdust ring
he made a 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 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 a peaceful community. He
couldn't gain 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 op-
posite the meadow Miss Kitty was
sitting under a tree, weaving wreath
for somebody's brow. Fam" 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 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 Ringtail 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 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 slow walk, and leaning heavily
on his arm, grandpa's was reached. 1t.
was reached again that evening. and
the next day and the next. In fact Mr..
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 i.
Deacon Chambers speaking from the
postoffice steps for the third time and (
saying:
Darn my hat. but what do you feb =.
lers think now?"
what is it?"
"That chipmunk killer and the gall
that tainted away are sittin' up nights ;
together and il that don't mean love ,
and marriage I'll saw the horns of
my best cow!"
Copyright, 1912. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)