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Updated: May 16, 2025
If we had the time he would tell us his personal experiences with every celebrity in the circus world. We haven't the time, and we've got to work fast and cautious. "Now Fisheye would balk and walk away on us if we offered him these bears for nothing; he just wouldn't understand it. He dickers in animals a little; trains 'em and has 'em doing things right away.
"But I thought as cheap as they were, I ought to have a ten spot out of it. But I resign in your favor. It's all among us folks anyhow. Just you go over and spot him the ninety and see if you win." Fisheye went back of a neighboring cage to search himself for the needed cash. The salesman turned to Welborn who in the whole deal had said never a word. "It worked out all right," chuckled the midget.
He likes 'em and they like old Fisheye. Why, he can take these little bears and have 'em turning somersaults, dancing, and climbing to their perches in no time. Then he sells 'em into some big act. "Fisheye is our meat for this play, but don't sell out too quick."
Better still, he'll let you make a note for the hundred due in ninety days or say Christmas. By that time you've got the bears sold and your note paid, and jingling the difference." Fisheye was squinting through the slats. "I wish we had 'em out whar a man could see what he's buying." "Haven't you got an empty cage where we could turn them out in the daylight?" asked the sales manager.
I just couldn't kill them; it would be like killing a pet dog. So I just thought that if I could find someone to take them and care for them, it would be good riddance and give me time to go back to my work." "Well, that solves the problem," said the midget, gleefully. "I've got your party. He's old Fisheye Gleason right here with the show.
He is good, too, on a dog and pony act. Once a zebra got its leg broke in swinging one of the big poles in place. It looked like there was nothing to do but shoot it. But Fisheye salvaged the cripple; he taught it to get up and down with the leg in splints; cured him, except for a slight limp, and finally sold the beast as the only zebra that was ever broken to harness.
Fisheye is a grand old liar but he's a fine animal man." Circuses the big ones, with menageries have a tradition: "the show must go on." Storms, fires, rail disasters, major accidents even death shall not deter. The show must go on. The Great International had lived fully up to this tradition.
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