He's Sold oo Argentine, 



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By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. 

 Star Staff Correspondent. 



LA PLATA.— It was an odd place 

 to find a Scotsman, although travel- 

 ers tell me, they can bob up, from 

 time to time, almost anywhere. 



This one was ; 

 with a circus, a j 

 one -ring animal 

 show that trav- 

 els by truck, 12 

 months a year, ! 

 the length and I 

 breadth of the 

 Argentine, south 

 in summer, north 

 in winter, west 

 when fruit and 

 grain crops are 

 harvested. 



For 15 min- j 

 utes our ringside j 

 party watched a j 

 w. h. Shipnen. calico z e fo r a j 

 gambol and frolic ahead of the whip 

 of a midget clown without suspect- j 

 ing the presence of a Scotsman. \ 

 The latter half of the zebra emerged 

 at conclusion of the act and took a ; 

 bow. He even made a little speech ! 

 in Spanish. - 



But his naming red hair, his 

 accent and his sandy complexion 

 gave him away. I chatted with him 

 after the show while Dr. William 

 M. Mann of the Washington Zoo 

 searched for (and found) the friends 

 of circus performers he knows the 

 world over. 



The Scotsman seemed a bit sad, 

 even after we exchanged tobacco 

 pouches and his pipe bowl proved 

 twice as capacious as mine. 

 Dislikes Arising At 5. 

 "In the States, now," he said, "the 

 artists are organized. We do not 

 have that here. It is now an hour! 

 after midnight. I must get up at ; 

 5 of the mornin'. We move then.; 

 In the States, 'now, where artists 

 are organized, would I be getting 

 up at 5 of a mornin' to help pull 

 the stakes?" 



As a boy he had run away with 

 a circus to England, had worked in 

 London, and later in Germany be- 

 fore coming to Argentina 12 years 

 ago. 



"Of my 42 years," he said, "TVe 

 spent 30 with the circus. I'm no 

 bloody amateur, you know!" 

 s I agreed and complimented him 

 I on his technique, especially the ar- 

 tistry displayed with the zebra, 

 I driven to a jump by the clown ring- 

 , master, balks at first and thu/. 

 climbs the fence with its forelegs, 

 | leaving hind legs on the other side. 

 ■ The Scotsman was the hind legs. 

 ' it was his job to swing them around, j 

 , not over the jump. The act got a j 

 j fcig hand. I thought one gaucho | 

 : who sat next to us was going to j 

 | choke. ; 

 ; Even a few Indians scattered 

 ; among the spectators laughed out ; 

 loud. All this I told the Scotsman 

 without penetrating the gloom in 

 which he had wrapped himself like 

 a cloak. He sighed and puffed at 

 his pipe. He used more of my 

 matches. 



"Why not try for a job in the 

 States?" I asked. 



Argentina Galloping. 

 "Because I like the Argentine bet- 

 ter. This country is not running, 

 it's galloping, man! Every time we 

 go back to a town we find they have 

 built more to it! Cities are growing 

 and the country is getting more ; 

 prosperous all the time! 



"Our little show, now. We take 

 it to- Buenos Aires soon to get new 

 tents, and trucks. We're going to 

 be bigger. I'm working on a bigger 

 act myself ! " 



The Scotsman stared at me over 

 his glowing pipe bowl. There was 

 a significant silence. I ventured to 

 ask about the new act, and he be- 

 came at once evasive in a way that 

 implied he was guarding a profes- 

 sional secret of no little consequence. 



As our party came together and 

 we prepared to leave, the Scotman 

 sidled over. 



"Man," he said, "if you hear of 

 a giraffe in the ring, that long neck 

 may be mine ! But, mind you, it's j 

 not me that gave it away!" 



"Nobody would suspect a Scot- 

 man of giving something away!" I 

 said— and smiled when I said it. 

 The Scotsman grinned back. 

 "Now, now!" he said, "how about 

 a bit of my tobacco, I am still 

 smoking yours!" 



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