“Laws sake! Now how did this dreadful thing happen to poor old Billy. Ben! Ben! did you paint Billy like this?” cried Miss Selina when she saw her dog.
“S-sh! don’t spoil the side-shows!” warned a hissing voice behind her, and Flutey turned to see Mr. Richards’ laughing face close to hers.
“But how will we ever get Billy clean again?” said she.
“It’s only colored grease paint such as movie people use—we’ll drop him in boiling water and soon scald off the paint,” laughed her tormentor.
Meredith Starr was the strongest man on earth and was seen lifting great balls of iron and heavy bars of metal. The spheres he picked up as easily as if they were feathers were marked 5,000 lbs. each, and were as large as a barrel.
“Mr. Richards, do tell me what he is lifting?” queried Aunt Selina.
“Can’t you see they are marked iron?”
“Oh, but they aren’t really! They look like hollow paper cubes bronzed over to look like rusty iron,” replied Flutey.
“Maybe you’re right at that,” laughed Mr. Richards.
The last side-show was a huge cage with a curtain hanging before its opening. On the curtain was a notice stating: