The monkey was so
frightened that a moment later, when Sabella went to find him, he
sprang away from her, and with a prodigious leap landed squarely on
Reward's head, where, chattering and screaming, he clung desperately to
the long ears.
[Illustration: "With a prodigious leap he landed squarely on Reward's
head."]
The next instant a frantic mule was performing the almost impossible
feat of running away on a treadmill. At the same time, to Billy
Brackett's dismay and to the astonishment of his audience, the several
pictures of the panorama were flitting by in a bewildering stream of
color, the effect of which was kaleidoscopic and amazing.
This was Don Blossom's first and last appearance on the stage in
public, for he was so thoroughly frightened that, after being rescued
from his unhappy position, nothing could induce him to enter either the
exhibition hall or the engine-room again. An hour later he managed to
evade the watchfulness of his young mistress, slip from the boat, and
scamper away through the darkness. His absence was not discovered
until the next morning, and at first it was supposed that he was in
hiding somewhere on board. When a thorough search failed to produce
the little rascal, all except Sabella declared he would never be found,
and they must proceed down the river without him.
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