He is their
legal adviser, and went down to Memphis to rope us into the game."
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Circus Has Bad Luck in Indian Territory--A Herd of Animals
Turned Out to Graze Is Stampeded by Indians--They Go Dashing Over
the Plains, and the Circus Tent Follows, Picked Up by a Cyclone. No
more horse racing for this circus.
The managers held a meeting at Guthrie, Okla., after we had lost our
money horse racing with the Indians, and pa said the consensus of
opinion was that we better stick to the legitimate show business, and
not try to work in any side lines. Pa says he made a speech at the
managers' meeting, in which he showed that the business man who attended
strictly to the business which he knew all about, would make money,
while the man who knew about dry goods, but worked in a millinery store
or a stock of tinware, got it in the neck. He would either get stuck on
the head milliner, or buy a stock of tinware that would not hold water.
So a resolution was passed to the effect that hereafter no temptation
could be great enough to get our show to go into anything outside of the
business, no matter how good it looked as a get-rich-quick affair. So we
gathered up our show and played a whole week in Oklahoma, and had full
houses all the time, and made money enough to redeem our animals that
had been attached by creditors.
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