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Circus Letters Woodblock in Blue King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints
1 January 1920

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Payment

With some, showmanship had become so much a part of their nature, it was always present. With others it would become evident through occasional spontaneous acts from which they drew their own satisfaction and amusement. Like that of Patty Conklin, when he paid the substantial balance owing on his season's printing account entirely in silver coinage. I had only to catch the twinkle in his eye to know that he would derive the greatest pleasure from the stunt if I went along with it in a dumb manner.

As his cashier pushed out the big stack of rolled coins, I began, one at a time, to put them in different pockets, while he made a casual excuse that his partner had just taken all the folding money down to the railway station to p[ay for his train move to the next location.

By the time I had all the money stowed away it felt that the breaking of a single stitch in each pocket would result in the entire load cascading to the floor. The total weight was around 35 pounds.

The secondary pleasure I received later was from the look that appeared on the face of the bank teller as I kept taking roll after roll out of my pockets and shoving them through his wicket. The climax was reached when he burst out in language probably never before heard from his side of the counter, in the dignified and restrained atmosphere of a bank, with the words, "where in hell did you get all that?" (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 90-1)

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Grandson Campbell King talks about getting a payment all in coins.
23 December 2003

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We went to Gayland and talked about payment for the printing. We were just there to look at the show and we went to the office and the guy said, "I'll pay you."

And I think it was three or four thousand.

The guy said, "We'll pay you, but all we got is change," and so okay.

The guy counted up the money, and said, "You want to check it?"

Dad said, "If you say its there, its there."

Then we had to figure out how the blazes we were going to get it out off the fair grounds. Us
three boys and mom and dad, we loaded up our pockets.

We didn't have to worry about blowing away in the wind.

But we had to hold our pants up to get out.

Doug King

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Circus Letters Woodblock in Red King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints
1 January 1920

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Circus Letters Woodblock in Yellow King Show Prints and Enterprise Show Prints
1 January 1920