Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-11-21

wild man who could run down an o.
trich had said to his employer:
1--WE got to have my back salary to-
morrow or quit!
.Ill give you ten Of it, if we have
luck" was the reply.
AZ want every silver of i'll"
whats biting you?"
I'm not playing wild man for my
health"
You know you can't strike another
Job if you leave me, while l can get
dozen fellows to fill your place"
That was about all. except that
yam" planned plan to be carried
out at Farnville. and it was carried
ont He 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 I get the back salary?"
GO on with you'll"
do get it,"
"Nit."
I
| happened on this green earth before
| and will never happen again. "Zan"
threw eff 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 Pingtaiied 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 Mn 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 mile
away.
| Mr.. Walters was 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 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
| nosite the meadow. Miss Kitty was
sitting under q tree, weaving wreath
for somebody's brow. "Zam" wanted
10 get to the woods to shake off pur-
sujt and he must pass her within q
| few feet. She saw him-she shriekcd
she sprans up-she saw Mr.. Walters
| numbering along, and then she tainted
md keeled over. Something told Ter
that it was a Wild man from Africa,
and that he intended to make ca S
meat OF her. and it was quite sensible
0. her to faint She tainted so quick
y that she didn't hear him call 70
ncr:
Don't be scared, Missy! I'm only a
nan in disGuise."
And she wGs dead to the world as he
checked his pace long enough to ado:
81 don't blame her 4 darned bit!
Hope it will cost old Ringtail ten
bones extra"
"zam" got into the woods and PR
suit was off. Mr.. Walters, pulling ard
blowing, came up TO find good lock-
ing girl huddled among the daisies.
and ne ran to q 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 uY
End saying:
"Oh, that horrid thing!"
"But it's gone"
"And YOU we're so brave! Please
take ME home"
At slow walk, and leaning heavily
on his arm. grandDa's was reached. 1t
was reached again that evening, ard
the next day and the next. In fact Mr..
Walters felt it his duty to pay CELL
at least once day until sure that tie
wild man had returned to his mother
in Michigan. And all this resulted in
Deacon Chambers speaking from ITO
postofice steps for the third time and
saying:
Darn my hat but what do you fell
lers think now?"
what is it,"
THAT chipmunl1 killer and the fal
that tainted away are sittin' up nights
together, and if that don't mean loye
end marriage III saw the horns OF
my best GOVT"
Copyright 1912. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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