SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS in 



ilege of standing and watching the merry-go-round. 

 I told him that I wouldn't allow it ; that all of Pen- 

 ang could come and see my show free. I was too 

 busy taking in dimes to think about fences. He 

 went away angry and disappointed. Four days later 

 a lawyer representing him came to see me. He said 

 that the rent had been raised to $10 a day, and that 

 a dispossess order would be executed unless I paid 

 it. I told the lawyer to wait and I went back to 

 the hotel, to get my pith helmet. 



The merchant had forgotten about the receipt. 

 When the lawyer saw it, he told me that the mer- 

 chant was unpopular with all the Malays and Chi- 

 nese in Penang because he cheated them, and that 

 they would be delighted if I sued for breach of 

 contract. The result was that, for $i a day, I got 

 the use of the lot as long as I wanted it. 



Within six weeks I had made up the entire cost 

 of the merry-go-round and I was on velvet. The 

 dimes were still rolling in as fast as I could collect 

 them. Finally, when the novelty of my show had 

 worn off and business began to slacken, I shipped to 

 Rangoon, Burma, to collect dimes there. After the 

 merry-go-round had been running two weeks, I was 

 approached by a man who wished to buy me out. 

 I had had all the fun I wanted, and so I sold it to 

 him for 10,000 rupees $4,500 in gold. He was a 

 government official and consequently did not wish 

 to appear in the transaction. The bill of sale was 

 made out in his wife's name, and a man was hired 



