Well after we had lerned how he put a ox chane
on to us and then he went out and begun to holler.
he sed ladies and gentlemen for one short day only
you are privileged to see the wild men of Bornio,
imported at vast expense by arrangements with the
king of Bornio and captured after a terific fite after
6 dogs was killed and 4 men fataly ingered for
life. they are of small size but like the man munky
they have the strength of 7 strong men in their
sinews and boans and in there native lair they track
and kill the maneeting tiger and the lion with there
naked hands. then he pounded his stick twict on
the platform and it was a signal to us and we begun
to yowl and snarl and stamp and he sed there
they are taring each other to bits and he rushed in
and hollered and cracked his whip and fired his pistal
and we yowled and snarld and peeple begun to
rush up and pay 10 cents to come in. when they
saw us one woman sed my what dredful looking
things and one man sed i have got a 15 years old
boy that can lick boath of them munkys. so when
he and his boy come near the platform i gumped
at him and made a auful face and let out a auful
howl and i wish you cood have seen that 15 years
old boy hiper acrost that tent and holler. he was
scart most to deth and the man two and a woman
screached and they had to carry her out. then
the man cracked his whip and drove me back snarling
and making auful faces and Hiram he let out
sum auful yowls and bit his chane and fomed at
the mouth with sope and the man told how only
last weak he had to put on us a red hot iron to drive
us off a hieener whitch had got out of its cage and
had atacted us but he was two lait and before he
cood drive us from our pray we toar him to bits.
A man asted what we et and he sed live rabits and
chickings and sometimes frogs. well peeple kep
coming in droves and bimeby i see Beany an Pewt
come. Beanys eyes were jest like sorcers. i laid
down and snarled a litle and i pertended to be
asleep and snarled in my sleep like a dog does. i
wanted Beany to come near me and so i kep quite
and bimeby Beany and Pewt come close to the platform
and i make a gump at them and let out the
loudest yowl and maid the feerfullst face i cood.
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