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When the show had begun Mr. Barnumbil made a brief appear- ance in the van; hurried as he always was. He did not recognise
"Well, Doc., how do you And our. patient?"
Towards nine o'clock the dwarf had grown an inch during the con- Peter, and thought that Old Mary
had called in a doctor. had to lie doubled up in his truckle-versation. bed; even then he was not com- "I'll be blowed if he don't go fortable. And though Mary kept right along! If he keeps on' he'll en making hot drinks he could al-soon be a presentable enough giant
"I'm not the doctor," Peter re- must be seen lengthening with the--but we can't count too much on plied. "I'm the patient. I'm the naked eye, and when they arrived that. As he has no clothes to At dwarf!"
at their destination he was already him you'd better go und look in my Mr. Barnumbill opened wide his a graceful adolescent. Hurriedly wardrobe for the grey suit with the eyes, but he was not a man to be ealed in, Mr. Barnumbill had first gooseberry stripes which I had to astonished for long,
of all a movement of pity, and mur-leave off wearing last year." mured sympathetically:
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"Fine boy" he said. "I'm not surprised that my suit fits him so
At eight o'clock at night Peter well."
over.
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"Poor boy! His career is ruined) now. And he had started off so realised that his growing crisis was "And if you but knew how witty well...."
He how measured 5ft. 8in, he is, Mr. Barnumbill! It's in- He measured the dwarf, and and nothing was
lacking to what credible." when he discovered that he had usually goes to make up the pride!
"Mary exaggerates a little," said Old Mary Feter, blushing. grown taller by 24 inches he could of a good-looking man. not hide his vexation.
[did not tire of looking at him, and, "Huh! Queer happenings, my "He is really useless," he said. clasping her hands, she compliment-boy, and I don't see what the end's ed him on his fine moustache and to be.... For the moment you can't "What the devil can one do with a
nice collar of beard that added 50 stay stuffed in this van. C'mon out kid whose only speciality is to measure five feet? I'm asking you,ful face. He had broad shoulders, off as one of my relatives."
much distinction to his fair, youth-with me for the air. I'll pass you Mary. It's obviously 3 curious
too, and his rounded torso fitted case, but I don't see how we can
As they walked along they passed make an act out of it. We should snugly inte Mr. Barnumbill's jacket. the Serpent Man, who was coming
Peter was pleased, but soon had out of his caravan. 5th Nov. have to be able to show it as other subjects of wonderment. For close to them, and, as he was natur- He stopped and 'After.' Ah, if he'd
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elephant's trunk, or anything else heavy to him a while ago-hised spitefully on the broad- slightly original I wouldn't be big picture-book, the storm-lantern, shouldered, open-faced fellow with worried. But, really, I don't know the water-bucket-no longer had the boss. what to do with this sudden growth-felt within his body and limbs un-
any weight in his hands. And hel "How is the dwarf?" he asked. How am I going to replace you this]
"Not well," answered Mr. Bar- Levening, Dwarf? I'm still calling used strength for which he vainly numbill. "The doctor came a while
you Dwarf when I'd be doing better sought employment in that van age and had him taken to the hos
reduced in pital." to give you your own name, Peter where everything was Smithson."
"As good as gone," added Peter, "Is my name Peter Smithson 7" So it was with all the notions, all with jovial impatience.
the ideas, which but the day before The Serpent Man wiped away a "I'm not very sure.. Smithson, or had filled his dwarf's mind and tear and, before going, said: "He 1st Nov. Smithers, if not plain Smith, or imagination; he now saw that they was quite the nicest pat I ever jeven Jones. I have no means of were no longer sufficient, and al-knew. He was so tiny that there making certain. In any case, I can ways it seemed to him when he was was no room in him for meatness. guarantee you the Christian name about to speak that he lacked some-, He was gentle, Sir, and conddent:
"AENEAS" thing. Sometimes a'wavering In-When he put his wee hand in mine of Peter."
Mr. Barnumbi}l
on the to go on for our act I can't tell you, gave Mary or-tuition made him stray ders not to noise about the occur- wrong road, although he suspected how happy I was,"
He feared
As Old that the news something was wrong.
Peter was moved. He would cause A little revolution Mary came close to him to arrange have liked to tell the Serpent Man emong the artists of his troupe. his tie he took her hand and utter-that he was the dwarf, and that he They agreed to say that the dwarf, ed phrases that came to his mind, was almost unchanged, but, at the very seriously ill, had to remain in having heard them many times in same time, he was afraid to be bed and not see anyone. Before other circumstances.
Httle himself, to acquiesce in hia leaving the caravan Mr. Barnumbili | "How can you stop me from late limits. The Serpent Man again measured the patient, who finding you charming? Your eyes threw him a hostile glance and went have the deep and tender colour of off snilling. Mr. Barnumbill. said summer nights nothing is sweeter to Peter: than smile of your stubborn mouth;; "You had friend...."
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'bird in flight. Happy, a thousand times happy, the man who knows that one there was a sure friend how to find the secret path to your who expected nothing from you." heart, but be he accursed if he be Together they entered the circus,limited
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At the first words Old Mary was times that the dwarf had just gone a little surprised, then she became to the hospital and that he would used to the idea that one might not be seen again in the troupe. still address such homages to her. Everybody wiped away a tear and She smiled with a stubborn month, said how sorry they were. The fluttered her wing like a bird in Ringmaster, Koko the down. flight, and sighed with her hand Yanido and his three acrobat brothers, Miss Primrose the wire- "Ah, Master Peter, you've gained the lion-tamer, and all the other walker, the Japanese Jugglers, Julio even more wit than waist, and artists of, Barnumbill's Big Creus, don't think that a person with any all sighed that they had lost their feeling could resist so many accom-beat friend. Even the elephant plishments. I don't want to be wagged his trunk in a way that cruel, Master Peter. Besides, It wasn't usual with him, and one isn't in my make-up.
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But the wooer, without knowing Yet nobody paid any attention to why let out a roar of laughter, and Peter, although Mr. Barnumbill in- ESTEAMER Mary immediately understood that troduced him as his cousin. It was CHANGTE she had been taken in by his fins a though he didn't exist, and he TAIPING
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