“Headquarters of the Look Brothers’ Grand Consolidated Circus and Menagerie,” he muttered, a smile creasing his cheeks even while he frowned.
“I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or swear damnation!”
Then he hurried on to round up his elephant posse.
CHAPTER XIII—THE “COME-UPPANCE” OF CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH
OF THE PACKET “EFFORT”
“I’m a serious-minded man,
I have sailed from old Cape Ann
For fifty years, and I’ve braved as much as ary a mortal can.