to him but he was back at him quick as a wink with the funniest things a body ever said; and how he ever could think of so many of them, and so sudden and so pat, was what I couldn’t no way understand. Why, I couldn’t ’a’ thought of them in a year. And by and by a drunken man tried to get into the ring — said he wanted to ride; said he could ride as well as anybody that ever was.

They argued and tried to keep him out, but he wouldn’t listen, and the whole show come to a standstill. Then the people begun to holler at him and make fun of him, and that made him mad, and he begun to rip and tear; so that stirred up the people, and a lot of men begun to pile down off of the benches and swarm toward the ring, saying, “Knock him down! Throw him out!” and one or two women begun to