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was constructed like a paddy wagon, with a grate, but the ape was not
at it. Two men in raincoats got
out of the cab part, cursing, and ran around to the back and opened the
door. One of them stuck his
head in and said, “Okay, make it snappy, willya?” The other jerked
his thumb at the children and said,
“Get back willya, willya get back?”
A voice on the record inside the truck said, “Here’s Gonga, folks,
Roaring Gonga and a Great Star! Give
Gonga a big hand, folks!” The voice was barely a mumble in the rain.
The man who was waiting by the door of the truck stuck his head in
again. “Okay willya get out?” he
said.
There was a faint thump somewhere inside the van. After a second a
dark furry arm emerged just
enough for the rain to touch it and then drew back inside.
“Goddamn,” the man who was under the marquee said; he took off his
raincoat and threw it to the man
by the door, who threw it into the wagon. After two or three minutes
more, the gorilla appeared at the
door, with the raincoat buttoned up to his chin and the collar turned
up. There was an iron chain hanging
from around his neck; the man grabbed it and pulled him down and
the two of them bounded under the
marquee together. A motherly-looking woman was in the glass ticket
box, getting the passes ready for