The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-01-14

the old lady's back They had stopped
10 fasten up the harness, and hadn't OBJ
served It, The Bimboes laughed, SO did
Nettia, while Mrs Bimbo and | grew red
/ in the face.
Clummy and Percy, by this time, had
pot oat Of sight. We drove on, and got
IL couple of miles, when perceived a
i horse coming toward us at an unusual
4 rate speed AS he drew nearer, / OBJ
served tEat it Yves Clummy's animal In
an instant, our fears were excited, and,
as we turned to one Sside we discovered
the horse had hardly any harness on
Accelerating our own velocity, we soon
came upon the two victims, seated on the
side of the road, the rockaway turned ov-
er, and the front wheels smashed all to
pieces. The horse got frightened at a
bush, ran of, struck against pile of rocks
demolishing the wheels, and having dis
engaged himself from the shattered We
hicle, had faced about and started Tor
home Save swollen hand on Columbus
and rumpled finery on Percy, nothing was
wrong. The Bimboes came up, and the
two torlorn wretches got in, and proceed
to the fair.
/ Tie Bimboes defended to put up out
side of the enclosure, but since Percy and
her beau had got IN with them, they were
ashamed to 90 it We learned this from
Lou ana Charles, on horse back, who rode
Up to on6 side, and whispered little too
loud to Bimboimere.
(Which one are you going in ? >
Gin the first gate you come to, OF course,
simpletons, responded she, and Simple
tons" turned into yard marked, "Stabling
by Sam Bow .a4l2a &C.,
But we kept on. had intended to
leave my vehicle outside, but the BimbC e ;
being along of course I did not want to
look picayunish touched up old Twist,
and we drove up in fine style and nearlyran
over a fat woman, in a pink bonnet, who
was carrying basket She scowled and
4 looked another way, so we got out of
we tetAered our horses close together, not
without misgiyings on my part, as to the
Iconbguity Of some threshing machines,
Which were rafting in a distracting man
ne1. Some officit us colored society, Hcame
up, and kindly assisted me to attach my
horse to a buggy wheel, for which | was
badly treated, as will hereafter appear.
Unused Percy and Columbus, and on in
qligy, a5certaincd that they had got out
at the gate [ knew Percvs manner.
There wasn't any style, riding in two
horse wagon, you know.
was afraid to leave my basket, SO /
.pok it on one arm, and Miss Jaypee on
The other, and SO we wendell our way to
the ampitheatre, the Bimboes close be-
hind, passing moving machinesand plows,
punniqg into patent bee.hives, lodging
under betting and winding around
crowds waiting for cider, and narrowly
escaping demolishion from windmill,
watch turned over Just IN our path. Net
! ties had ticket in the Pastall Belief, and
was in an agony to be ON hand. So we
climed the steps -Nettie, the basket, and
! and the Bimboes- of these last eight or
| none, srt4ff-sf f..ifH
/ That was the heaviest basket l ever re
member to have carried, and by the time
seven or eight thousand people had bump
led agains5 1T, my arm was tired. | in
wardly sWorc that we would eat our din
ner then, and then Ed throw the hateful
thing away. We peeped through under
mans arm, and over a woman's bead,
and saw some colts in the ring, a crowd of
men in the pagoda, the musicians way up
aloft, and then lea the van, despiritedly,
down STAIRS and behind the henery, we
prepared for dinner The Bimboes pros
duced their basket, the young fry bring
ing from all their pockets, apples in great
profusion. ahi
4 What hodge-podge met Nettie's gaze
as she raised the lid of our willow. Pies
llielly, pickles and chick ens,Were all mixed
j up in inextricable confusion. The Bim-
DO Basket promised better, but, on in
spection, j didn't see anything but bis
cults devoid of butter, slim pieces of beet
J steak, with spots of cold gravy thereon,
! and when [ looked to see more whole lot
of picked watermelon rind met my view.
There's some O Paliney's make" said
the female Bimbo, senior 81 guess we
can make out, though I'm right sorry 80
see the mess your dinners in"
: II those hateful Bimboes hadn't been
there, would have gone and took Or
] phan's dinner but then, / didn't bring
enough ofthe lucre for them, so, by mutu-
al consent we made OUT with the stock
on hand. Just as we put an end to our
Irepast who should walk up but Percy
: and Columbus, the former looking very
: red, and the latter asseyerating that he
/ WASH t tired a bit. They seized the scraps,
and accepted an apple each from couple
{ Of the youthful Binbo's race. ~
After they We're through, we made the
tour of the different halls. I rushed off
with Nettie intending to leave some folks
, in the lurch but just as we were congrat-
! Iulat;ng OURSELVES on the success of our
venture Stephen A. D, Bimbo plucked
t me by the basket, which | had forgotten
. to throw away, and called my attention
3 to the big organ. We tarried awhile and
: listened to its doleful nurmurs, and then
5 wendell our way to see TIE swine. Here