The managers had a meeting
and resolved to get out of the Indian Territory and into Kansas just as
quick as possible.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Pa Is Sent to a Hospital to Recuperate--The Bad Boy Discourages
Other Boys from Running Away with the Circus--He Makes Them Water
the Camels, Curry the Hyenas and Put Insect Powder on the Buffaloes.
This is the first time since we started out with the circus in the
spring that pa and I have not been two "Johnnies on the spot," ready for
anything that the managers told us to do. Oklahoma, though, and the
Indian Territory, have been too much for pa, and they sent him on to
Kansas City to recuperate in a hospital for a week, while the show does
Kansas to a finish, and makes a triumphal entry into Missouri.
I wonder how the show will get along without us for a week, 'cause they
sentenced me to go along with pa, so I could be handy to hold his hands
when the doctors are pulling cactus needles out of his hide. I guess pa
was willing enough to jump Kansas in the night from what he told us
once.
He said when he was a young man he and a railroad brakeman got busted at
Topeka, and they had an order book printed, and went all over Kansas
taking orders for Osier willows, which they warranted to grow so high in
two years they would make fences for the farms that no animals or
blizzards could get over or through, and make shade for the houses and
the whole farm.
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