was a-scrambling off them seats, making a noise like thunder;
and all fighting and pushing and bellowing to get out!
I was there with my wife and making for the seats that the fools quit,
so's to get under and crawl out under the canvas, when I see
Mrs. Ellis holding two of the children, and that fool girl let
the other go and I grabbed it. 'Oh, save the baby! save one,
anyhow,' cries my wife--the woman is a tinder-hearted crechure!
And just then I seen an old lady tumble over on the benches,
with her gray hair stringing out of her black bonnet.
The crowd was WILD, hitting and screaming and not caring
for anything, and I see a big jack of a man come plunging
down right spang on that old lady! His foot was right in
the air over her face! Lord, it turned me sick. I yelled.
But that minnit I seen an arm shoot out and that fellow shot
off as slick! it was Mr. Lossing. He parted that crowd,
hitting right and left, and he got up to us and hauled a child
from Mrs. Ellis and put it on the seats, all the while shouting:
'Keep your seats! it's all right! it's all over! stand back!'
I turned and floored a feller that was too pressing, and hollered
it was all right too. And some more people hollered too.
You see, there is just a minnit at such times when it is
a toss up whether folks will quiet down and begin to laugh,
or get scared into wild beasts and crush and kill each other.
And Mr. Lossing he caught the minnit! The circus folks came up
and the police, and it was all over. WELL, just look here, sir;
there's our folks coming out of the elevator!"

They were just landing; and Mrs. Ellis wanted to know where he had gone.

"We run away from ye, shure," said Shuey, grinning; and he