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Show HY DUNN LETS. ,' His Circus Following. ; "You know that guy I let you meet this afternoon?" aft-ernoon?" "Which one, Hy?" ' "Come out of it th' one with the Hart, Schaffner, the cello neck dress and the raspetaz tie. Well he's a peach that fellow don't move with much force in exclusive circles, but he's got , a couple of his own under a big tent, and it costs outsiders money to mingle in them, but not me I'm his friend. "You know he's one of the famous Campbell I brothers, and they've humped themselves into a ' ' great big wad of green that ain't stage money. "He ain't much on spring styles, and he ain't got much respect fer the Queen's English, but he looks good to the naked eye an', he's my friend. The first time he came to town he taught Chet that line of circus talk; next he made the efficient, obliging agent a flattering proposition, but this time he told me a hippo story that is the b'est you ever heard. "When we starts out last year," he sez, "we ain't got no 'hip,'" which the same is a hippo-potamus, hippo-potamus, "so I wuz bugs tryin' to flger where we gets off at. Then I wakes up. Ringlings' has got a lame 'hip,' so I makes a play, an' gets him. "Ringllng sez to me, yu might as well take 'lm. He's to the bad on one pedal an' we wuz goin' to leave 'im home, anyways. He's a good 'hip,' but you've got to boost 'im, push 'im big, an' he'll make good. We gets th' 'hip' fer forty plunks a week. Cheap rent. "Well, we follored Ringlings' dope, and his show. Every time Ringling put up a piece of j 'hip' paper we slapped two right beside it, an' they waited fer us. , "If we'd knowed they wouldn't have let him went west with us again this season we wouldn't ' have went so strong, but when we get to Salt Lake we'll have another 'hip' all right." I |