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Title: Peck's bad boy with the circus (microform)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Peck, George W. (George Wilbur), 1840-1916
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Publisher: Chicago : Stanton and Van Vliet
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he sailor had pre-scribed. I dont know as it was right to doit, but about the time pa had got to the redpepper course and was sprinkling it on hisskin pretty thick, and he was beginning to getpretty hot, and was yelling a little, I told thechief of police, who was looking around withthe health officer for suspicious cases, thatthere was a man acting sort of queer behindthe wagon that had a piece of canvas over thewheels. They both rushed in on pa andgrabbed him. Gee! but pa looked and smelled like a plateof pigs feet and the doctor said it was an un-mistakable case of yellow fever, he could tellby the smell, and then pa turned pale andyellow from fright, and they wrapped him upin a piece of canvas and took him away in anemergency hospital ambulance, and the wholeshow at once knew that we were in for a quar-antine. They burned up the suit of clothes pa tookoff and the one he was going to put on, andthe ambulance drove away, while pa shookone fist at the sailor and one at me, and his 92
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Ti.e Doctc- o3.;a iu wc;S an iJtunistskr.b.e Case of Yeliow Feve PECKS BAD BOY skin began to shrink and smart, and he yelled,and the audience stampeded, and the show wasin the dumps. We had to stay over Sunday in Evansville,and the show people were so scared the man-ager thought he better have religious servicesin the tent Sunday, so they got a revivalistpreacher to preach to them, a fellow who usedto preach to the cowboys out west. Sundaymorning the tough fellows in the show saidthey wouldnt do a thing to the preacher whenhe came on to do his stunt. Their idea wasto wait until he got well on his sermon andthen begin to interrupt him and ask questions,and finally to get a blanket and toss him up afew times for luck, and then chase him outand have the circus bulldog, that chews theclowns pants, catch the ministers coat tailand just scare him plum to death. The boys said it would be the biggest picnicthat ever was—a regular barbecue. The bosscanvasman said he was opposed to mixing re-

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