Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-09-08
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got in town they'd got through paradiu,
and the elephants was. unharnessed, ard
the Car ugglenot was out in "a. wood-shed
| made up my mind right off, staen, that
The hull consarn wasa humbug.'
! WAS Barnum aware I asked that YOU
were to be in towna's@. s2}ssii3 .saI
Not as know vas the answer
IF be had known it, added the Major,
'he would doubtless have waited. Bat you
visited the exhibition,I suppose4' 8
'Of course; was bound TO do that if it
| bust ma' That was a bigger humbug than
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why, in the first place, Il expected TO
see Jenny Lind =f ar-k asEf
sWas she announced in the bills?'
Il don't know; didn't read 'em, but axed
the man that stuck up the picturessif she'd
be there, and he said yes, and that she wo'd
sing the bird song standin' onytop of a cage
Of coccatoos and parrots. ] She wasn't
| there, and never seen one side of her
| and then | know'd the whole consarn was a
darned humbug.' 'ss-s FE III ,as}-s
well, then, / went round and took a
look at the elephants-had hard work TO
get round tn; there was NOR hundred
thousand people in the tent. Finally got
where they was, and the folks was all feed
in 'em with apples aud cakes add things.
i had some doughnuts in my hat, so I
held it out TO one Of the darned things, to
see if he'd take one.' --=ssa5--'.-
Did be take one2' ~ 9z#
sHe took EN- all, aud the hat etu, stuck
'em IN his nasty, peaked mouth, and begun
eatin'. I hollored to the keeper, and told
him it was bran new hat. He said nev-
er mind, he'd get it again *'s.H ss sa:
'Did he get it?' - &gs ae9i
Yes, he gotit, but hat amt Of much
account after elephants chawed it. Then,
I'd sworn the hull consarn was humbug.
Well, | took lock at Tom Thumb, and
the Ceylong Chief, and the man that fd-
died with his toes, and the Teller that went
in with the lions. The wild animals was all
well enough, but / didn't see as they look
ed any different from anybody else's.
expected Barnum's lions would be twice as
big as any others. There was, one, thing
that was fust rate that was the wax statu.
ary-especially the intemperance family
[ told the man that tux care Of it, | wished
everybody that ever drinked drop ofspir-
its had to stand and look at that: about a
week-they d never want TO drink again.
He said he wished so tu.'
TAKE it all in all, though, was mad !;
[ didn't see what expected, and l did mt
like the idea cf being humbugged, SO in
quired of one of the men that was. stirfin'
up the monkies where Barnum was, and
he pointed him out to me, selling lemonade
out of a wagon. / went up to him, and,
thinks I, I'll give him q piece of my mind
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MIR. s.Barnum--'. 7ss
'Sixpence glass; sez he. .aes ,.s..
Il looked at his lemonade there was just
one lone, solitary, second handed slice Of
lemon in whole wash-tub full of il, and
be peddlin' il out at six-pence glass.
That made me madder than all the rest,
SO says I, loud and audibly. ssse.y- ~
tMr. Barnum, l think. your shows
darned humbug,' .a s--.
Young man. seq he, Is'pose you paid
to come in?' s55as-zs sf5 ,l~.ezs.rs
'Supposin' I did?' seq !. y ~as
'WelI,' seq he, 'supposin' you have; you
have paid your quarter, and you've per-
feet right tosthink just what you please
Why sadi the Major, after the sensa-
ton caused by the recital had somewhat
subsidized, why did you not demand your
money back? You certainly could have
compelled them to refund your quarter.' -
So! You see the truth is, said Jonathan,
scratchin his head, L didn't pay no quarter
Il crawled in under the canvass.-[ SPIRIT
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