 Jerry of the circus. I'm sure glad to see you though. Look, look at all that smoke coming out of Clair's tent. I was just going in when Ragsford, you're coming around the corner. Quick, Jerry, we haven't any time to look. Boy, you look how that smoke pours out. You can't see a thing. Here, the flame's over here. You've got a blanket or something, Jerry. Okay. Here you are. Why, it's the ironing board. Probably because that smoke's bad. Yeah, that does it. I thought there wasn't much of a blaze, just not a lot of smoke. Someone must have left the iron on. I'll disconnect it. That's inexcusable. I've never known Clair in all the years she's worked for me to do a careless thing like that. Say, Mr. Randall, look. Where? Here on the ground. See where some of the sawdust is scraped away? Looks like a footprint. Well, I guess it's yours, Jerry. No one else has such a small foot. They're getting so detective conscious you'll be catching yourself one of these days. No, but look, Mr. Randall, this is a lot smaller than my foot. Oh, so it is. Say, it couldn't be Major Might. Oh, no, of course not. Major Might? He's just crazy enough to... Come on, Jerry. Let's drop in on him. He'd be dressing now. You know, the side show opens before the big show. Well, I kind of hated to suggest him, but... Well, you know that argument he and Clair had about his watch? Yes, I know. The Major thinks certain people have it in for him, and he just can't convince him any different. Clair has been one of his pet peas for a long time now. I don't see why he should feel like that about Clair. He's really awful friendly. And if you hadn't have had the bright idea about taking that picture in Clair's tent, we might have blamed all that monkey business on the Major. He's annoyed her before. Mr. Randall, I don't know whether I ought to tell you this, but I sure don't want to be a tattletail, but... Well, what does it sound? Well, it may just be a coincidence, but the other night, Patsy and Bump's and I went to the cafe near the lot after the show, and, well, the Major came out just ahead of us, and he was carrying a big bag of bananas. They were sticking out of the top of the bag. Patsy kind of laughed, and Bump said he was probably giving his friends a party or a treat or something. Well, what's all this about today? Well, you see, later that night, when the watchman and Rags and me saw that shadow, and then we went back to the monkey cage after finding the footprints, well, there was a banana field laying on the ground right outside the chimpanzee's cage. Oh, well, of course, lots of people might have given that to the chimpanzee. Yeah, I know. That's why I didn't say anything to anybody then, but the next morning, Bump and I were going down to see Uncle Dan. Oh, yeah, I know, and the bearded lady was bawling out the poor Major about Patsy's costume. The Major came and explained the whole thing to me. That costume had been left in Clara's tent to be mended, and I hope Patsy put it in there myself. Oh, you don't say. Say, if anyone else pulled a stunt like this, providing, of course, the Major is responsible for this electric iron and all that monkey business, and Patsy's costume, I'd fire them so quickly. Oh, gee, Mr. Randall, I hate to have you do that. But with the Major, I'll just have to let him know I'm on to him and what he's done, and he'll be so ashamed he'll be good for the rest of the season, as good as he can be, that is. Oh, there's his tent right over there. Now, if I were you, I'd just take a little walk with rags and let me see the Major alone. Oh, sure, sure thing, Mr. Randall. I just rather he didn't know you had anything at all to do with all this. So would I. You see, Jerry, it's really my fault. I asked you to try and find out about those things that were disappearing from Clara's tent, so you only did your job. I'm sure glad I could help. Help? And look to me as if you solved it all. Hang around. I'll see you when I come out. Okay, Mr. Randall. Come on. Major. Major Mike. Oh, hello. Hello. Who wants me? It's Sam Randall. Oh, yes, Mr. Randall. I'll be right out. Good. Oh, there you are. Didn't make you long? No, sir. When the boss comes to see me, I'm a quick change artist. Well, hmm. Well, Major, I'm having a little bit of trouble. Oh, you don't say. I'm sorry to hear that, Mr. Randall. Now, Major, I don't want you to take offense at what I'm going to say. Well, I never have, have I? Oh, you and I have always gotten on pretty well. And that's just how I want things to keep on going. Well, that's a ticket with me, too, Mr. Randall. Now, I understand you and Clara have been having a little hard feeling lately. A little? Say, listen, Mr. Randall, I'm glad you brought that up. I've had more of that woman's meanness and I'm going to take it. No, we won't go into that, Major. Personally, I think you're all wrong about Clara. Everyone else seems to be very fond of her. Well, that's just because they got a buffalo. But she thinks she can push me around just because I'm little. Now, when I try and talk back to her, she's really vicious. Oh, what do you mean vicious? Oh, this just goes to show you. I admit we've been having words lately. So I hear. Well, after the storm the other night, my coat needed pressure. I can imagine. Well, I asked her to press it before the matinee and she wouldn't promise. Anyhow, she said she had a lot of other things to do first. Well, after that storm, I know she had a lot to do. Yeah, well, why did she pick on me? Well, did she press your coat? Well, yes, but then I had to wait till the last minute and then, you know, she stole my watch. That magnificent watch at the King of Romania gaming. I tell you, Mr. Randall, I'm not more of that watch than anything else in the world. But Clara wouldn't do a thing like that. Yeah, but she did. I know I had it in the inside pocket of my coat. I looked for it after she pressed it and it was gone. I just can't believe that Clara would do a thing like that. She's dangerous, Mr. Randall. She's vicious. Well, just a minute, Major. Well, we're on all this. Even if she did take that watch, which I don't believe, don't you think she might just be trying to get even? Get even? What about all this business with Aga, the chimpanzee? What? I don't know what you're talking about. You haven't heard about the trouble Clara's had in the wardrobe lately? No, of course not. About the chimp that was let out of its cage to go in there late at night and about the little man who's been feeding the chimp bananas? Why, Mr. Randall, you certainly don't think that I... I certainly do think you've been back of all of this. And I've got enough proof for you to confess and make a clean breast of the whole story. Well, I'm completely flabbergasted. You'll be more than flabbergasted if you don't confess. I want you to know I've just come from her tent now. I've probably got there just in the nick of time. What do you mean? I'm talking about a fire from an electric iron. Oh, no, Mr. Randall, it couldn't have caught fire. That's just what it did. It's lucky for you I happened to be going by there in time to put it out. Yeah, but I just meant to scorch your ironing board a little. Uh-huh, so you did do it, huh? Never mind, I knew it all along. No, truly, Mr. Randall, I didn't mean any harm. I put it on just before the end of the matinee. She'd find it, of course, before she went off her supper. Yeah, she probably never went back. Yeah, but she always does go back after the show. Well, she missed this time. Anyhow, you just miss sending our whole circus up in smoke. Oh, Mr. Randall, I don't know what to say. Why would you do such a thing, Major? Well, she took my watch. Well, you think she took it. Remember, you took her thimble. And I hear Clara set great store by her thimble. It was a gold one that her grandmother gave her. She wasn't supposed to steal anything. She was just supposed to mess things up. She did that all right. Well, when I find out she'd taken the thimbles of those pace buckles, I took them right back and hid them among the things so she'd think they were there all the time. Oh, so that's how you happen to have Patsy's costume in your tent, huh? Yeah, sure. I was just waiting for a chance to get her back when that miserable bearded lady had to find it. By the way, how are you and she getting long nowadays? Oh, don't ask me, Mr. Randall. I want to see her again. She's just a pest. That's what she is, a pest. You certainly have a time getting along with all your lady friends. What are you going to do with me about all that? Well, I'll tell you, Major. First of all, I'll have to deduct enough out of your salary to get Clara a new iron and board. Truly, I didn't really mean to start a fire. Oh, I'm sure of that. But you've got to think more and not let your temper run away with you. Now, that's one thing. Well, I'll try, Mr. Randall. Honest, I will. If you'll only forget all about this, I promise I'll never lose my temper again. Honest. Well, we'll see, Major. Meantime... Oh, hello there, Jerry. Who've you got with you there? Excuse me, Mr. Randall, but I met this messenger boy down on the lot and he asked me to show him the Major Mike's tent. Well, got something for me? Yes, sir. Oh, that's funny. Where from? The ransom's jewelry store, sir. I didn't buy anything at a jewelry store. Are you sure you've got the right name? Sure. It's Major Mike, all right, with the Randall Brothers circuit. Well, that's me. Gee, maybe someone's giving you a present. If you'll sign here, Major. Yeah, here you are. Good evening, sir. Well, well, well, I wonder what this can be. Great. God forbid, man, open it. Let me see a little box like this. I wonder what it'll be. That's a ring. Oh, no, no, no. It's too big a box for a ring. Well, there now. I'll open it. So, what? Well, what's wrong, Major? What is this? A joke? Why, it's a watch. I'll say it's a watch. It's my watch. The watch I've been so worried about. Well, I'm glad you got it back. Yeah, but why, from a jewelry store? Maybe you had it fixed and forgot about it. Certainly not. Do you think I'm feeble-minded? No, of course not. Yes, I'd know if I sent my watch to a jewelry store. You'd better look it over carefully, Major. Open up the back. Stick it a little. There. See? Here, Major, here. I thought you weren't going to lose your temper again now. Now, take it easy. Why, that's a picture of the bearded lady. Bad girl! That's what she is, a bad girl! So, that's what she was doing snooping around my wagon the other morning, taking my watch so she could get a picture and grab the back of it. The nerve of that woman! Now, Major, now calm down. Jerry and I have to go along now. Take it easy. Remember, it's hard in your digestion to get so mad. I'll get even with her if it's the last thing I do. She probably was trying to be nice, Major. But my watch! The one that the king of Romania gave me! And now it's got the bearded lady's picture and great on the back! Come along, Jerry. Okay, Mr. Randall. Goodbye, Major. I'm sorry. Sorry! Sorry, I'm more than sorry! Poor Major! What a time he has! I think it's kind of funny, though, don't you? Yes, I do, Jerry. But we must never let the Major know he just can't stand kidding.