The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-21
SAMMY'S CIRCUS DAY.

Copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure News
paper S~yndicate,)
sam was a grocery boy and drove
uae wagon TO deliver pies and other
kooa Things to the peoples homes.
hut he did not like the Job a bit. For
ne Was fond OF marbles and ball. and
Wneh there was n game in town 1t
seemed simply awful to have to trot
ben around from door to door lug
IN stupid baskets of cabbages and
meas, But 1t seemed as If there was
no help for it.
But he took out his disappointment
IN a mean way. Every chance he got
no would worry Ben and set the dog on
tho cut, and. when he got home he
spent his time teasing his sisters and
baby brother till the whole family
wore glad when he was away.
In May the big circus came to town.
sam stopped his wagon to see the
Silded cage go by and the camels
swlnging along behind. When he got
PACK to the store and found he had
10 deliver ON pies at the cook tent
at the show ne was wild with delight.
so putting Old Ben into a gallop he
sped out TO the grounds.
1t was hot and dusty and the air
was full OF every kind of noise. The
smell OF saWdust and animals, pink
lemonade and peanuts, hot sausage
and straw rose on the warm breeze.
sam ierlted the box OF pies into the
cook tent. then stole into the menag-
erie. where the beasts We're eating
their dinner. But he soon got tired
or watching that. and began to tease
them. He would spoke a stick through
the bars of the cages when the show
men Were not looking, tickle the ponies
With n wire. pull the hay from where
The elephants could reach it. and
dragged the pole from which the gil
raffe drank so far he could not get it
It all. When he had been about as
5iSagreeable as a boy could be, he sat
down upon some stray behind a cage.
determined to stay there n sneak in
to the big tent when the performance
began.
But, when the band struck up. he
was surprised to see a wonderful thing
happen, n thing that was not down up
on the bill at all. For every cage door
opened and out walked the animals. AT
the front was a big Bengal tiger, lash
,ng his tawny sides with his tail. After
him numbered an elephant, then came
Il giraffe and several leopards.
Strange to say, they all stopped right
before where San sat. The tiger opened
his huge. red mouth in an ugly snarl.
This is the boy thai has been find
ing all his pleasure in making us mis-
erable.' he growled. Here. Mr.. Ele-
phant, just toss him up into my cage
for me-"
In a monen Sam was being whirled
around in the air, for the elephant
thought he would ave some fun, too.
He was swung from side to side of the
sent, hen bounced UP against the roof,
but every time he fell the elephant
caught him again, just like a player at
baseball.
AT last the elephant tossed him into
/ cage and h tiger snapped the bolt.
uncomfortable he felt in his box,
for his legs were so cramped he could
not stand and was obliged to crawl
on his knees. Then he was dy-
Ing of thirst. but. when he tried to
drink out of the pail in the r the
leopard pushed it over and spilled it
all over the floor. All the animals
and roared again.
Then the elephant came UP with a
big tub. full of sand. This they poured
over the suffering boy. and it almost
choked him to death.
Time fun. isn't it, making others
asked the tiger. with a
sheer. You never remember that we