DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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a fat lady's husband ain't no bed of rosy<br />
ease at that, Watty tells the doctor. It's like<br />
every other trade--it has its own pertic'ler<br />
responsibilities and troubles. She is a turrible<br />
expense to Watty on account of eating so much.<br />
The tales that feller told of how hard he has to<br />
hustle showing her off in order to support her<br />
appetite would of drawed tears from a pawnbroker's<br />
sign, as Doctor Kirby says. Which he<br />
found it cheaper fur his hull show to board and<br />
sleep in the tent, and we done likewise.<br />
Well, I got a job with that show myself. Watty<br />
had a wild man canvas but no wild man, so he<br />
made me an offer and I took him up. I was from<br />
Borneo, where they're all supposed to be captured.<br />
Jest as Doctor Kirby would get to his talk about<br />
how the wild man had been ketched after great<br />
struggle and expense, with four men killed and<br />
another crippled, there would be an awful rumpus on<br />
the inside of the tent, with wild howlings and the<br />
sound of revolvers shot off and a woman screaming.<br />
Then I would come busting out all blacked up from<br />
head to heel with no more clothes on than the law<br />
pervided fur, yipping loud and shaking a big spear<br />
and rolling my eyes, and Watty would come rushing<br />
after me firing his revolver. I would make fur<br />
the doctor and draw my spear back to jab it clean<br />
through him, and Watty would grab my arm.<br />
And the doctor would whirl round and they would<br />
wrastle me to the ground and I would be handcuffed<br />
and dragged back into the tent, still howling<br />
and struggling to break loose. On the inside my<br />
part of the show was to be wild in a cage. I would<br />
be chained to the floor, and every now and then<br />
I would get wilder and rattle my chains and<br />
shake the bars and make jumps at the crowd<br />
and carry on, and make believe I was too mad<br />
to eat the pieces of raw meat Watty throwed into<br />
the cage.<br />
Watty had a snake-charmer woman, with an<br />
awful long, bony kind of neck, working fur him,<br />
and another feller that was her husband and eat<br />
glass. The show opened up with them two doing