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385Herald [?] JACKSON PARK SKETCHES. There has been a shift of lecturers at Buffalo Bill's show in Sixty-third street. The big fellow who used to howl out the features of the programme and then wave a red flag for the performers to appear is now in Boston. His voice wasn't strong enough to be of any service to the spectators, but nobody can truthfully say that he didn't do the best he could. The proprietors were anxious to make a change, but men with fog horn voices were scarce and so the howler from Boston was permitted to hold his job for a much longer period than anybody had a right to expect. One day, however, Colonel Saulsbury was startled by a roar of a man who was selling peanuts in the grand stand. It tore round the big amphitheater, rolled out of the entrances, and drowned the voice of the lecturer who was supposed to be something of a yelper himself. On the following day the peanut man was summoned to appear before a jury on howling. This owlish body was composed of Colonel Cody, Major Burke and Colonel Saulsbury. The peanut vender was asked to give "some specimens of his ability." Opening his face half way to his forehead the long legged candidate let loose a deafening bellow. "Now cry out 'ladies and gentlemen,'" said Major Burke. The face opened again and the roar that came from between the heavy jaws shook the ridge pole of Colonel Cody's tent. It did not take the jury long to reach a verdict. The lowly peanut vender was there and then promoted to the exalted position of lecturer, with instructions to let his hair grow and buy himself a white sombrero. The Boston crier went home the next day. | 385Herald [?] JACKSON PARK SKETCHES. There has been a shift of lecturers at Buffalo Bill's show in Sixty-third street. The big fellow who used to howl out the features of the programme and then wave a red flag for the performers to appear is now in Boston. His voice wasn't strong enough to be of any service to the spectators, but nobody can truthfully say that he didn't do the best he could. The proprietors were anxious to make a change, but men with fog horn voices were scarce and so the howler from Boston was permitted to hold his job for a much longer period than anybody had a right to expect. One day, however, Colonel Saulsbury was startled by a roar of a man who was selling peanuts in the grand stand. It tore round the big amphitheater, rolled out of the entrances, and drowned the voice of the lecturer who was supposed to be something of a yelper himself. On the following day the peanut man was summoned to appear before a jury on howling. This owlish body was composed of Colonel Cody, Major Burke and Colonel Saulsbury. The peanut vender was asked to give "some specimens of his ability." Opening his face half way to his forehead the long legged candidate let loose a deafening bellow. "Now cry out 'ladies and gentlemen,'" said Major Burke. The face opened again and the roar that came from between the heavy jaws shook the ridge pole of Colonel Cody's tent. It did not take the jury long to reach a verdict. The lowly peanut vender was there and then promoted to the exalted position of lecturer, with instructions to let his hair grow and buy himself a white sombrero. The Boston crier went home the next da |