Road to Zanzibar Page #2

Right down here now.

Easy. Woop.

Wait a minute.

Just sit it in there.

Careful, now, woop.

Careful, now.

Woop, look out, men.

You all right?

Get that bench in the corner

and put it on the bench.

Get this one up here.

There we go.

Woop. Look out. Christmas cards?

Huh?

Set it right there.

Here you are.

Hey, where you been? I've been shopping.

I know, but where?

Wait'll you see what I got.

There's a million bucks inside,

a million bucks!

How long can you

hold your breath?

I don't know. I never tried. Well, try it.

Why?

Try it.!

How long did I go?

Get that outta here!

It's an octopus!

That's what she is.

The greatest idea I ever had.

Get this for a setup.

We'll build the tank bigger.

We'll dress you up like a pearl

diver... little sarong or something.

Then you wrestle with him like

you did with Bonzo the bear.

Remember how we cleaned up?

It'll be terrific.

Fearless Frazier wrestles

with the terror of the deep.

No, sir. Wait, I mean

when you're feeling better.

That thing's got eight arms.

I only got one-and-a-half.

What's the matter with

that? I don't like the odds.

We'll snip

a couple off of him.

Wrestle an octopus? Me? Yeah.

Those things are murderous.

That ain't spaghetti he's waving.

Besides, they're poison.

They spit ink.

You can wrestle and write

home at the same time.

I've had enough.

I can't do it.

Ah-ah-ah!

Junior, never say "can't. "

You can do anything

you think you can do.

You told me I could fly

and look, a broken wing.

You tried to land downwind.

You can't do that.

Why don't you slip in some night

and just put a shotgun to my head?

Boy, you're slipping.

You're really slipping.

I'm trying to make a big fellow outta

you. They'll write books about you.

I know three words that won't

be in them:
"ripe old age. "

It's a cinch. We'll train him. Train him?

I'd look fine swimming with a chair

and a whip. You can't train an octopus.

They only know one thing. Grab you

quick and suck the blood out of you.

How would I look

with no blood?

Just the same.

Why not train him to knit? Knit?

He could work on four

sweaters at the same time.

I'm ashamed of you, afraid of

a poor little thing like this.

The man I bought him off of

raised him from a polliwog.

Look, I'll show you

how gentle he is.

Come on, boy.

Come on.

Come on here.

Just for that you go back to the

fish store. How do you like that?

Go ahead.

Write a letter.

Now, listen, Fearless, I've

given it a lot of thought.

We get a boa constrictor.

We stun him.

You go in there with a lasso and hogtie

him. I'll tell him when he comes in.

We've been kicking around the world for

five years two jumps ahead of trouble.

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