What I need is rest. Go,
boy, go!"
I felt sorry far pa, but I put my arm around him, and I said: "Pa, do
not fear. I will never desert you, until the season is over. Wherever
you go, I will go, and I will keep you awake, don't fear. Now that we
are going into the sunny south, where every man may have it in for you,
'cause you were a Yankee soldier, I will stay by you, and there will be
things doing that will make you think the past has been a sweet dream.
See, pa!"
[Illustration: "Pa, Do Not Fear."]
Pa sighed again, and said: "This is too much!" and he rushed off to find
the elephants.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Bad Boy and the Senator's Son Go on an Elephant Chase--The
Senator's Son Gets His Friend a Bid to Dinner at the White
House--The Trained Seal Swallows an Alarm Clock.
The show remained in Washington two days, 'cause it took all one day and
night to catch the elephants, after the senator's boy and I turned the
rats and mice loose in the ring while the elephants were forming a
pyramid. Pa and all the circus hands had to go away down towards the
Bull Run battlefield to round them up, and young Mr. Senator let me ride
one of his ponies and he and I went along to help catch the elephants.
We went out through Alexandria towards Bull Run battlefield.
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