HILLBILLY CLOWNSIn Northern Arkansas, at the edge of the Ozark Mountains and hidden deep in a holler, there lives a clan of hillbilly clowns. No one knows for certain how they came to occupy the land, let alone how they became clowns. One popular legend, however, seems to rear its head above all the others, although it is not known what degree of actual truth resides in this legend. I recount it here for your edification, just the same:
It is said that Matilda the Tiger Lady, a featured act at the Branscum Traveling Circus and Emporium Show, escaped one night during a performance, in the process tossing her trainer high into the air before throwing him into her cage. It is said she threw him with such force that he did three somersaults, hollering and yelling all the while as he twisted a
