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Jib Jab said, "All in the game."
Judge Dot said, "It's different with you, Jib; you ain't human and you
can't say for yourself. You're in the menagerie class. You got to ride in
your cage. You ain't a regular freak. I never heard of no parade work in a
freak contract."
Madame Whopper said, "I wouldn' do parade work fer no proprietor, ride or
walk, I wouldn' not even Barnum hisself, I wouldn'."
Jib Jab said for me to pass him the butter and then he winked at me and he
said, "You're too particular, Ma. Parade work is all right. I like
parade work, except I can't smoke. How about it, Kid?"
I said I didn't mind being in a parade, but I wouldn't want to ride in a
cage like he had to do.
He laughed and said it was all in the game. He said if he ever broke out of
that cage, I'd never capture him until he came back for his money on
Saturday night.
I said "Sometimes boy scouts find people; sometimes they hunt for people
that are lost. In our magazine there's always a notice if a scout is lost
and all the scouts are on the look out for him."
"Yes, but those people are human," he said.
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