Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-18
'DREAMLAND
A ADVENTURES
LONESOME BEARS BROTHER
by DADDY
CHAPTER III
wbx tbe Tiger Screamed


THE screams Of the Royal Bengal
i ,,ger made the circus crowd shiver
r,. neople didn't know whether thu
..,.sms were a part of the show. o.
wbsther they meant danger.
persy and Billy, sitting In the re
| ..ry.d seats, saw the educated pigs
..ong from the tent and felt like rae
,ns ofter them. The cry that came from
,hs great striped creature crouching ir
| a eteel ring In the center OF the arens
r,s fierce enough to scare any one.
This steel ring was as large as the
psual circus ring, and inside of 1t the
u,I,d beasts performed. A passageway
made of steel grating led from the ami.
mai cages in the menagerie tent to. the
riue The tiger began screaming while
n was coming through this passageway
and kept on screaming as It burst into
the ring. Apparently It was Wild with
| rage. o..
In the ring at the time were two
| o,her tigers, three lions and several
ieonards as we'll as the animal trainer.
who was none other than the Persian
princess, whom Peggy and Billy had had
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other other tigers, the lions and the leopards
crouched away from the screaming
Royal Bengal. II was plain they were
sSraid of him. They didn't know what
10 make of his sudden fury.
The Persian princess, too, was start
led, She bravely cracked her whip. and
when that didn't have any effect on the
screaming Royal Bengal she fired a pis.
tol in his face to scare him--a pistol
that did not have any bullets In 1t.
toAr mid nt-
,ention to either whip or pistol. He
iashed his tail. he snarled. he snapped
in a rage at one of his paws.
Peggy and Billy gazed with fearful
ewes at the scene, expecting any mo-
Tient TO see the enraged tiger spring at
Tho princess. Indeed, the beast set it
self to leap, but stopped to snap again
That -fg swapping at the paw gave Billy
an idea He had heard how beasts
sometmes got thorns In their paws and
TOO, OF man who had won a lion as
| his friend by pulling out thorn which
was torturing the beast. Perhaps this
tiger had stepped on thorn while com.
ing through the passageway. As soon
as Billy thought OF this he let out a
Look at the tigers paw! Something
ID hurting It,"
The tiger stopped his snarling and
swapping at the. sound of Billys, voice.
"Ow-ow! OF course something is
hurting my paw and I'm going to tear
this whole circus to pieces" screamed
| the tiger.
your paw more to tear the circus to
"stop that fuss so some one can look
| at your pay and see IL 1t can't be fixed"
That certainly did surprise the tiger.
Never before had any little girl dared to
| talk TO him that way. calling him silly.
and ordering him what to do, Ana
|neyer before had little girl talked to
him in animal speech that he could un-
|derstand. So the tiger just looked at
|Peggy and Billy with his mouth open
and stuck his paw out through the
Peggy and Billy Jumped from their
seats and ran to the ring.
Look out for the tiger He will tear
| you to bits!" shouted the circus owner
But Billy had already seen what was
| nail that had deeply pierced his foot.
Hold still. I'll take out that nail
and stop It from hurting you," cried
| Billy. The tiger gave a groan, but lay
still, and Billy tugged ur the nail. It
was in so deep he couldn't bulge 1t
Then Billy thought fast. He. might
pull the nail out with lis teeth. But
Il he tried it the tiger" great claws
might slash him. The tiger moaned,
and Billy. forgetting the danger, grip
pulled with all his might, and out came
. the nail
"ow-ow-oww howled the tiger, lick
| ing the sore spot. THAT hurt awful.
but don't think it is going to hurt
much more" and the tiger went on with
| his act, as peaceful as a big kitten.
The circus owner looked at Peggy and
Billy with wondering eyes.
MY you are strange children he
said Il wonder II you can cure my
homesick bear?"
More about this homesick bear will
| be told tomorrow