When I write again, you will hear tidings of the farce, for Charles is to go in a few days to the Managers to inquire about it.

The company decided at its annual meeting to invite me to take the position of one of the managers, and I shall soon go to the winter quarters of the show, to arrange to put it on the road about the 1st of May.

After the chariot race the managers concluded they wouldn't let pa have any position of importance again very soon, and I made up my mind you wouldn't ever catch me in any game that pa was in; but in the circus business you can never tell what is going to happen from one day to another.

I could see that I made the Japs mad the first thing, and then I told them that pa and all the managers of the show felt sorry for the little Japs, 'cause some day the big Russians would ride right over them, and kill them right in the ring.

Pa said, not much, he wouldn't be away, and he told all the managers, and they all got around the dressing-room to stop the muss, if one started.

It was the worst mix-up ever was and the managers told pa to put a stop to it, and pa pulled off his coat and grabbed the first Jap he could dig out, and began to pull him, like you would take hold of the leg of a dog in a fight.

We had got to looking at the teamsters as of no particular account when they walked out, but when they wouldn't work, they became the most important part of the show, and after the show was over the managers who had told the striking teamsters to go plumb, found that they had gone plumb, and they had to rush all over Pittsburg and find them, and grant their demands, and get them to go to work.

The show was a failure at that town, and when we loaded the train the managers held a meeting in our car to decide what in thunder was the matter with the animals.

The managers appointed pa to settle with the injured, and the way he argued with those people was a caution.

The managers think pa is trying to commit suicide, for he wants to take the place of anybody who is sick or drunk, and is the understudy of everybody.

They all got out of the tent finally, and then the managers had a meeting to find out who started the trouble, and what it was best to do about it.

Everything is all balled up, the managers are sore at me, and afraid of being sent to jail, and pa thinks I ought to be mauled.

He said another thing that scared pa and the managers.

Pa and the managers held a consultation, and couldn't find that we advertised anything that we didn't have, except the ourang outang that we took on at New York, which eats and dresses like a man, 'cause that animal got whooping cough in Delaware and had to be sent to a hospital, but we heard he was well again and would join the show in a week.

The managers held a council of war and decided the show would be ruined if we didn't make a bluff at having an ourang outang, so it was decided that I was to be dressed up in Dennis' clothes, and put on a monkey mask, and go through his stunt at the afternoon performance.

The planter stopped to listen, and when one of the managers of the show asked him what was the matter, he said: "You can search me, sah.

Pa and the managers came back into the menagerie tent with the animal keeper, who had been sent for, and they began to try to find out what ailed the animals, and the animal keeper asked what pa had been feeding them, and pa said he had given them their ground turnips.

I expect that next year I shall be one of the managers of this show, 'cause they tell me I have got the greatest head of any boy that has ever traveled with the show.

The managers and heads of departments held a meeting to devise some way to get both classes interested, and everybody was asked to state their views.

Just then one of the assistant managers beckoned to me to lead in my procession and we lighted the candles in our Chinese lanterns.

The confetti, collapsed balloons and peanut shucks are the net assets of the revivaland these are left for the local managers.

All formal organized religions through which the promoters and managers thrive are bad, but some are worse than others.

" "We are to be the general managers," returned Patsy.

"But we will gladly undertake it, and I am sure we shall prove good managers, as soon as we get acquainted with the details of the business.

"None of the managers asked me what I had done, but what did I GET.