The Circus of Dr. Lao Page 13

  7. What was the business that the dead man whom Apollonius resurrected had to attend to?

  8. What did Mumbo Jumbo do with the fair-haired Nordic girl?

  9. If the circus didn't come to Abalone on the railroad and didn't come on trucks, how did it get there?

  10. What happened to the eleven people who were turned to stone when the medusa dropped her blindfold?

  11. If Apollonius was such a great magician, why did he waste his time fooling around with a little circus?

  12. Inasmuch as legend tells us that chimeras were invariably females, how did it happen that Doctor Lao's was a male?

  13. Was it for this same reason that Tu-jeng, when Doctor Lao caught the satyr there, was a hamlet near the Great Wall, whereas it is now a suburb of Tientsin?

  IX. THE FOODSTUFFS

  Pork chops. Lettuce. Ham hocks. Lamb chops. Persimmons. Hay. Soda pop. Duck eggs. Garlic. Little fat brown boy. Candy. Onion seeds. Pie. Pelicans. Grapes. Proteins. Snails. Beer. Snow geese. Sea foods. Carbohydrates. Frigate bird. Butterfat. Chicken. Gooseliver. Fish. Vahine. Frogs. Bananas. Oysters. Brown boy's old pappy. Bugs. Plantain. Fishing worms. Little plants. Lizards. Grub worms. Hot dogs. Rattlesnakes. Noodles. Slop. Nuts.

  Tientsin-Tucson, 1929-1934.