The Girl, the Clown and the Donkey
Directed by Charles M. SeayJoey's heart was probably not breaking while he made grimaces and played antics before the crowd in the big tent, but it is quite certain that he was not nearly as cheerful as he pretended to be. For Joey, the clown, was not popular in the circus company. In the whole company there were only two who did not kick and curse him. One was Dynamite, his pet mule, and the other was Margaret Jones, otherwise known as Margarita, the daring equestrienne. Suddenly the astonished circus learned that Joey had fallen heir to his uncle's fortune. The despised clown became at once the cynosure of all eyes. Then, while he was still dazed by his unexpected popularity, a telegram came from the attorney saying that the fortune amounted to the princely sum of thirty-four dollars. The storm of disappointed rage which followed the receipt of this news on the part of Joey's new best of friends may be imagined. Only Margarita remained unchanged, Margarita and Dynamite. With a woman's prudence, she went to the telegraph office to discover if there could be a mistake. Sure enough, the telegram should have read, "thirty-four thousand," instead of "thirty-four." With this joyful news she hurried back to the circus and discovered the gentle Joey, infuriated for the first time in his life, engaged in literally beating the life out of a man who had dared to kick his mule. Joey, Margarita and Dynamite left the circus that very day and have lived happily ever since.
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