[Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookPenrod and Sam CHAPTER XIV 1/17
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CAMERA WORK IN THE JUNGLE. The completed cage, with Gipsy behind the bars, framed a spectacle sufficiently thrilling and panther-like.
Gipsy raved, "spat", struck virulently at taunting fingers, turned on his wailing siren for minutes at a time, and he gave his imitation of a dromedary almost continuously. These phenomena could be intensified in picturesqueness, the boys discovered, by rocking the cage a little, tapping it with a hammer, or raking the bars with a stick.
Altogether, Gipsy was having a lively afternoon. There came a vigorous rapping on the alley door of the stable, and Verman was admitted. "Yay, Verman!" cried Sam Williams.
"Come and look at our good ole panther!" Another curiosity, however, claimed Verman's attention.
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