another circus movie

I forgot to mention we watched that 

old Disney circus movie Toby Tyler.

It was a big hit. Though it included 

a real shocker: After the boy joins 

the circus, he needs to escape from it 

and running through the woods with 

his chimp, he gets chased by a hunter 

and his baying dog. The chimp runs up 

a tree and the hunter shoots it! 

It’s hard to forget the image of that 

chimp freefalling from the tree like 

a sack of wet laundry and laying there 

in the dry leaves. Fortunately, it ends well 

as the hunter later admits, “I only 

winged him.”