I done them four mile lively, I c'n tell ye, an' the stun-bruises never hurt me once.
"When I got down to the village it seemed to me as if the hull population of Freeland County was there.

I'd never seen so many folks together in my life, an' fer a spell it seemed to me as if ev'rybody was a-lookin' at me an' sayin', 'That's old Harum's boy Dave, playin' hookey,' an' I sneaked 'round dreadin' somebody 'd give me away; but I fin'ly found that nobody wa'n't payin' any attention to me--they was there to see the show, an' one red-headed boy more or less wa'n't no pertic'ler account.

Wa'al, putty soon the percession hove in sight, an' the' was a reg'lar stampede among the boys, an' when it got by, I run an' ketched up with it agin, an' walked alongside the el'phant, tin pail an' all, till they fetched up inside the tent.

Then I went off to one side--it must 'a' ben about 'leven or half-past, an' eat my dinner--I had a devourin' appetite--an' thought I'd jest walk round a spell, an' then light out fer home.

But the' was so many things to see an' hear--all the side-show pictures of Fat Women, an' Livin' Skelitons; an' Wild Women of Madygasker, an' Wild Men of Borneo; an' snakes windin' round women's necks; hand-orgins; fellers that played the 'cordion, an' mouth-pipes, an' drum an' cymbals all to once, an' such like--that I fergot all about the time an' the ten-acre lot, an' the stun fence, an' fust I knowed the folks was makin' fer the ticket wagin, an' the band begun to play inside the tent.