Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02


show was somethin like thousand dollars day.
With thousand goin' out an nothin' comm in you
how stood after we'd been rained on for five
consecutive weeks tells you Governor, it roughl
Wasn't it, Boys?
FINALLY the animals started to die. One day we lost
polar bear zebu camels, an brace o lion cubs.
Next day of my elephants, big Judy, slipped an
fell in a Illinois street. She drownded dead before
could hitch up the other bulls an haul her the
est HILL The monkey cage upset, an the hull Darwin
family wiped out before got the wagon righted.
Almost everybody had rheumatic, sprained ankles,
stiff necks, water the knee and two acrobats had
to be shipped to Texas with gallopin' consumption
"The Old Man called a consultation in his We
gettin into Indianapolis, an it rainin harder
every minute In the bunch of conerees Grogan,
myself, Happy Keegan the boss canvas1nan, Red
Meeker the treasurer, an Ed Phipps the equestrian
director. downerh hearted lookin lot you
The Old Man said he'd consulted the weather map, an
the best he could get of it rain tomorrow an
next day.
".Boys,' says he, I'm cussed if don't think it's
goin' to rain forever Darnme if don't believe the
millennium has arriven
(which gon some for him. I'd been with him
for nigh onto twenty year an heard him be-
fore. He went an told us he busted there
only thing d. an go into bankruptcy.
With his eyes he turned his pockets inside out,
and explained that while tomorrow was salary day
there wasn't enough money in his roll to buy hay for
the horses. Consderin that had only sixty left
Old Man cleaned good an proper.
"All of liked the Old Man, an after the other
told him we'd stick, salary salary, if he could
think of scheme whereby could keep goin' long
enough to get to dry land.
az knew it, says he an fell to weepin You're all
my boys, an I'm proud of everyone of you; but I'm
blest if l think of scheme to cork up Heaven! If
anybody had told me year ago that there this
much up there, Idve done something desperate
to him. Personally think it's rained so long now that
cant R11t co11itc slime
I've got to get my fists some of the filthy imme-
ately, an the only way l do that is by selin'
somethin.
@As the Old Man said this he gazed at me, an knew
right then he meant the elephants.
"'All right, Governor, says l, you're Fond as
am Of them bulls, I'll part with en- an turn candy
butch if it's goin' to pull you out of hole
"'Hole!' says he This amt hole! This is dod-
blasted lake'
ave talked some more an when we got up to leave
an go forrard to hunks l had orders to the
authorities when got to Indianapolis in the mornin
an try to sell three of the elephants
ibid it. After splashin around in blindin'
rain for four hours got check for twenty
seven hundred dollars for three of the five bulls,
an with the head man of the local waded
back to the train to deliver the coin to the Old
Man an my pets to the new When got
{ the car open an went in only four elephants
sl alive. Sarah Jane the youngest an pur-
* test of the lot, had died in the night. Blest if
- Iknowwhat killed her. unless it was the moisture
she'd inhaled
@Anyhow, l led out three of the four that
left an turned EN- to the We
dumped Sarah Jane off the train, dug hole
in the mud, buried her, an started on to the
next town. There lingerin in Indi
annapolis. Somebody said Missouri was dryern
bone an the Old Man. after settlin for feed an the
railroad give orders beat it for the Show-me State
With elephant Wouldn't that get your nannya
Here we'd only been out two MONTHS an six bulls had