ll if them is the kind of things fellers
see whitch has the delirim tremens i never shall taik
another drink what do you say Talor and they laffed
and went out. well we scart peeple all that day and
had a grate time. at dinner he closed the tent and
give us sumthing to eat and drink and then in the
afternoon we done the same thing. we got prety
tired of it but we kep on. bimeby father come in
again and looked round and asted sum men if they
had seen his boy. they sed no and he went away.
bimeby he come in agen and stood and looked at us
a long time. i was tired and dident yowl so mutch.
after awhile he come up near and i made a gump
at him and knashed my teeth. he kep back so i
coodent tare him whitch was a good thing for him
for he wood have broak my back and he sed that is
the ferst time i ever see blew eyd nigger and he
kept looking. well a lot of peeple come in and the
man begun to talk about us and pounded the platform
and we had augt to have fit, but we was boath
prety sick of it and he cracked his whip clost to
Hiram and snached a peace of skin off his back
and it hirt Hiram so bad that he forgot he was a
wild man of Bornio and had been toar by a tiger and
he begun to ball and in a minit evrybuddy was hollering
cheet cheet and father jumped over the raling
and grabed me and yanked me off that platform and
men were hollering kill the cheet and evrybuddy
was trying to get at him and codent find him for he
had got out sumway. wel father sed you infernal
idjut where is your close and i sed in that trunk
and he opened the trunk and got out my close and
made me put them on and Hiram he put his on and
peeple were hollering for there money back for it
was a cheet and i sed where is my 2 dollars and
father sed what you ned is 2 lickings and that is
what you will get when i get you home if i can ever
get your hide clean enuf to lick and he got Charles
Talor to drive up with Nellie and took me home.
When we come out of the tent they was a big crowd
whitch holllered and laffed at us and all the fellers
hollered Plupy the niger munky and Plupy the wild
man of Bornio. it was tuf on me for all Hiram
Mingo had to do was to put on his close and hat and
he was all rite. well when we got home and went
into the house mother was so surprised that she nerly
dropped the baby. i gess she wood have but he
begun to howl and grab her round the neck and
hold his breth and grow black in the face and Franky
and Annie howled and he
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