Part 36 (1/2)
CHAPTER XX
DISASTER BEFALLS THE FAT LADY
”Help, help! Oh, help!”
”Co fro in thesun
The Fattest Woman on Earth was midway down the steep railroad e way beneath her feet, threatening every second to hurl her to the bottom of the embankment and into the muddy waters of a swollen stream that had topped its banks as the result of the stor shows did not succeed in getting fully away fro the events just narrated
This made it necessary to skip the next stand, so the show ran past that place, intent on ht
The train had been flagged on account of a washout so on the main track ather flowers out in the fields near the tracks
The Fat Woman was one of these She had found it a co to slide down the bank further up the tracks, after finding a spot where she could do so without danger of going right on into the creek below
But the return journey was a differenther way halfway up the bank when, finding herself slipping backward she uttered her appeal for help
”Stick your heels in and hold to it I'll be there in athe chutes down the e in his own heels just in ti in the streaoes that Tucker boy, headed for more trouble,” nodded a clown ”Watch him if you want to see soet into more in about aup behind the Fat Woan to push
”Start your feet! Start your feet! Make !” shouted Teddy
Marie did not move
”Oh, help!” she murmured ”Help, help!”
”Go on Go on! Do you think I can stay in this position all day, holding up your five hundred pounds? My feet are slipping back already I'ht thisfor hioes the whistle!
The train will be starting We'd better be ht aplace, hurried up the railroad eathered on the rear platform, where they jeered at Tucker and his burden
”Come--come down here and help us out,” howled Teddy
”You--you're a nice bunch, to run ahen a lady is in trouble!
Come down here, I say”
Just then the train started
Phil, at that 's car, else he would have tried to stop the train; or, failing to do that, he would have gone to his companion's assistance
By this tiainst the Fat Wo cinders in a desperate atte further down