Grundy's Great & Colossal Indian Exposition & Aboriginal Life Delineations has met with one of the too-common disasters of the road.

This great show enterprise must now be sold out in its entirety." After an impressive pause, the silence was broken by a sob.

Those in the crowd who were curious enough to turn, beheld the colonel with a handkerchief to his eyes, his shoulders heaving.

Somehow the colonel's noisy grief failed to excite the sympathy of those assembled.

It was suspected that the wrecked showman was playing for sympathy.
"Such a wealth of treasures is here offered," continued the auctioneer, "that for the first time in my career I confess myself unable to decide which article or lot to lay before you first." "You said that last week at Templeton," laughed a man in the crowd.
"Go on!" Whereupon the auctioneer once more addressed his hearers in a burst of vocal fireworks.
"I wonder what Prescott and his mucker friends are here to bid on ?" Fred Ripley was asking himself.