SHIPPING WILD ANIMALS III 
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 $1 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 
