East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-11-08

mere anu tnefe Win patches OF trcaVHers
GUS green; the sound of our wheels start
ling into flight the shy aud solitary birds
native to the region. Ever and anon,
too, we gained sufficient elevation, we
could see the great waves Of the land
scape rolling in clear morning light away
to the horizon; each wave crested with
farms and belts of woodland, and here
and there wreaths of smoke rising up
from holows where towns and villages
lay hid. After while the road grew
smoother, and afar the little town of
Ready sparkled in the sun, backed by a
range of smelling furnaces, the flames
tanned by the sunlight, making restless
simmer in the air, and blotting ont
everything beyond. Beneath us the high
road was covered with sheep and cows,
and vehicles of every description, push
ing in forward to one point; the hill paths
also which led down to it were moving
threads of life. On the brow of the hill
Just before we began to descend, John
pulled up for moment. II was a pretty
sight! A few minutes drive brought us
into Ready, and such a busy scene | had
never before witnessed. The narrow
streets and open spaces were crowded
with stalls, cattle, and people, and the
press and confusion was so great that our
passage TO the inn where our machine
was to be put up was matter of consider
able difficulty. Men, stripped to trousers
and shirt, with red hair streaming in the
wind, rushed backwards and forwards
with horses, giving vent at the same
time TO the widest vociferations, while
clumps of sporting gentlemen, with
straws in their mouths, were Inspecting
with critical eyes the points of the ami
mails. Travelling auctioneers set up their
little carts in the streets, and with aston
ishing elfrontery and power of lung
harangued the crowd on the worth and
cheapness of the articles which they held
in their hands Beggers were very
plentiful, disease and deformity their
stock-n-trade. Fragments Of humanity
crawled about upon crutches. Women
stretched out shrunken arms. Blind men
rolled sightless eyeballs, blessing the
passenger when copper tipkled in their
iron Jugs; cursing yet more fervently
when disappointed in their expectation.
In one place a melancholy acrobat in
dirty tights and faded tinsel, was per-
forming evolutions with a crazy chair on
a bit of ragged carpet; he threw somer-
saults over it, he stood upon his head on
it, he embraced il firmly and began spin
ming along the ground like wheel, in
which performance man and chair seemed
to lose their individuality and become
one as it were; and at the close of every
feat he stood erect with that indescriba
bic curve of the right hand which should
always be followed by thunders of APP
plause, the clown meanwhile rolling in
ectacics of admiration in the sawdust. =
Alas no applause followed the exertions
af the artist. The tights were getting
more thrcadbare and dirty. His hollow
face was covered with perspiration, and
there was but the sparscst sprinkEng ol
halfpence. l threw him halfa.crown
but it rolled among the spcctotors' feet
and was lost in the dust. He CROPPED
about in search of it for some little time
and then came back to his carpet and his
crazy chair Poor fellow he looked as
if he were used to that kind of thing
There were many pretty faces among the
GIRLS, and scores Of them were walking
about in holiday dresses. Rosy-faced
lasscs with black hair and blue eye:
shadowed by long dark eyclashes. How
they laughed and how sweetly the broguC
melted from their lips in reply to The
ardent blarney Of their swcethcartsl A
last we reached an open square, or oros
rs il would be called in Scotland, mort
crowded, if possible, than the marrow
streets Hordes of cattle beloved here
Here were sheep from the large farm
standing in clusters of fftics and hun
dreds; there clump Of five or six witt
the widow in her clean cap sitting bcsid
them. Many an hour ago she and the.
stated from the turf hut and the pastur
beyond the hills. Heaven send her
ready sale and good priccsl In the cen
tre Of this open space great benches wer
erected, heapcd with eggs, butter, checse'
the proprctors standing behind anxious
awaiting the advances Of customers
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