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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jest inside the tent with chains on. Back of everything<br />
else was the balloon.<br />
Well, the doctor he done a lot of songs and things<br />
as advertised. Then the Blanchet Brothers done<br />
some of their acts. They was really fine acts, too.<br />
Then come some more of Doctor Kirby's refined<br />
comedy, as advertised. Next, more Blanchet.<br />
Then a lecture about me by the doctor. All in all<br />
it takes up about an hour and a half. Then the<br />
doctor makes a mighty nice little talk, and wishes<br />
them all good afternoon, thanking them fur their<br />
kind intentions and liberal patronage, one and all.<br />
"But when will the balloon go up?" asts half<br />
a dozen at oncet.<br />
"The balloon?" asts Doctor Kirby, surprised.<br />
"Balloon! Balloon!" yells a kid. And the hull<br />
crowd took it up and yelled: "Balloon! Balloon!<br />
Balloon!" And they crowded up closte to that<br />
rope.<br />
Doctor Kirby has been getting off the wagon,<br />
but he gets back on her, and stretches his arms<br />
wide, and motions of 'em all to come close.<br />
"Ladies and gentlemen," he says, "please to<br />
gather near--up here, good people--and listen!<br />
Listen to what I have to say--harken to the utterings<br />
of my voice! There has been a misunderstanding<br />
here! There has been a misconstruction!<br />
There has been, ladies and gentlemen, a woeful<br />
lack of comprehension here!"<br />
It looked to me like they was beginning to understand<br />
more than he meant them to. I was wondering<br />
how it would all come out, but he never lost<br />
his nerve.<br />
"Listen," he says, very earnest, "listen to me.<br />
Somehow the idea seems to have gone forth that<br />
there would be a balloon ascension here this afternoon.<br />
How, I do not know, for what we advertised,