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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1911
Page
10
The narrator, posing as a mermaid in a traveling tent show, recalls the chaotic setup in a village fair. Amid water tanks and curious crowds, the performer bonds with an old ally as the act teeters between spectacle and farce.
A wild tale from Van Diemen's Land and the China Sea features mermaid Lucy captured alive by Colonel Webb and exhibited at great expense. Moscow MacShane and the crowd push to test her limits as the professor struggles to keep the act afloat, ending in a chaotic capture and uproarious police interlude.
Reagan slips from a high security prison in a calculated escape. He threads through woods to a river, commandeers a boat, and travels west toward the plains. After seizing jewelry and a ring, he encounters a sleeping woman and a pursuing household, which ends with a dramatic chase and a distant view of villages and distant lights.
In a moonlit wood Reagan helps a hunted man, a desperate felon with a wife and infants, decide who will flee. They draw straws, and Reagan, ticking the odds, lets the other go free while he slips away to face pursuit alone. The escapee is shot as he flees across fields toward safety.
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