about noon
The Bad Boy and His Pa Return to the Circus to Find They Have Been Quite Forgotten -- The Fat Lady and the Bearded Woman Give Pa the Cold Shoulder -- Pa Finally Makes Himself Recognized and Attends the Last Performance of the Season . We arrived from the far west and struck the show at Indianapolis , where it was playing its last date of the season , before going to winter quarters . It was a sad home coming , 'cause the animals and the performers had forgotten us , and we had to be introduced to everybody . We arrived about noon and while I stayed down town to get a shine , Pa took a street car and went right up to the lot , and the crowd was around the ticket wagon getting ready to go in . Pa went up to the ticket taker at the entrance and said , `` hello , Bill , '' and was going to push right in , when Bill said that was no good , and there could n't any old geezer play the `` hello Bill '' business on him . A couple of bouncers took Pa by the elbows and fired him out , and the crowd laughed at pa , and told him to go and buy a ticket like a man , and Pa told the bouncers he would discharge them on the spot . Pa went to the manager 's tent and complained that he had been fired out , and the manager said that was perfectly proper , unless he had a ticket , and he told Pa to get out .