They were fixed that way in respect to
entertainment.
But there came to me in Tampico a man named Flannagan, who said he
was manager of "The Flannagan and Imperial Itinerant Exhibition," a
company composed of three Japanese performers, a tin-type man from
New England, and a trick dog who was thoughtful and spotted.
Flannagan said he wanted to go far, far from Tampico, because, he
says, "Thim Tampican peons ain't seen tin cints apiece since they
sold their souls," he says, "at that price," he says, "to the divil
that presides over loafers." I told him I was going to Rosalia in
Guadaloupe which had a local system of entertainment already, and he
says, "Guadaloupe!" he says, "Rosalia! D'ye moind thim names! It's
like sthrokin' a cat"; and the company came aboard at five dollars a
head, three polite Japanese tumblers and rope-walkers, the thoughtful
dog, whose name was David, and the tin-type man, who was cynical He'd
gone into tin-typing, Flannagan said, so as to express contempt and
satire for his fellow-men.
"But," says Flannagan, "it do be curious how thim Dagoes in this
distimpered climate rejoice to see thimsilves wid a villyanous
exprission an' pathriotic attichude in a two be four photygraph.
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