The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-29
Going to the Circus.
WHAT ONE SEES AND HEARS AMONG THE

Woulo you NO, madame, we would no
charge cent; our book keeper is sick
but you will have to pay half price be
fore he can enter. Why he amt bu
ten |! Can't help that, madame, them fee
OF his is what takes up the room. [ oueb
to ask you dollar and half. but twenty
five cents will do. Well, there's Won,
money, but it's a swindle-come along
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What on hevin and airth ails you. John
Summit, that you drag that child right by
everything and don't give him chance
to see anything Slack up little /; I've
paid for these tickets, and am going to
see what's going on, and if it don't suit
you, you can poke ahead a.a
There, Isabella, look there don't you
see his jaw droop, and chest 90 up and
down That is the dying zouave Just as
he looked when he was dying. o, my, l
can t look at him, John keep hold of my
hand. Is he alive? No he embalmed,
and they run the body by steam, so the
show feiler told me- That woman there
is his sweetheart, waiting for his eyes to
get dim SO he can't see her 90 for his
watch and pocket book to remember her
by. af~
Get off my corns, you tarnal great lub-
Der you, can't you get around without
running over people? IF l had you out
side I'd put such head on you you would
have to git into your shirt feet first for a
month. Got to step somewhere Well,
what Of it f? You had better keep off from
my mud hooks, confound your picture.
There, my children, you see an ale
gorlcal representation of what drinking
leads TO. There is the .druukard and
his family" Oh most horrible of all
Here Maria hold the twins up so they can
have good view, while [ boost johnnie
What ails that woman's eye, pa ? her legs
is cut of. That is the effect Of whiskey.
my child. The drunkard has pasted
her one under the eye,i and the stuffing
has run out of her legs from riding on
the cars But see that big bottle stick
ing out Of the mans vest pocket what is
in that Old rye, my boy, and that red
color you see on the drunkard's nose and
face is the bloom that's on the rye. All
drinking men carry pint bottles of liquor
in their yest pockets. But you must take
warning, my son, and never carry the ac
cursed stuff thus hide it in more Sc
cret place-in your boot.
There I. there it is-the family of the
temperate man in that cage. Look, child
rem see the difference between this scene
and the one you have just left Here
the man that don't drink is seen sitting
in his house, surrounded by his wife and
children, who wear their Sunday clothes
all week. See the bullfuches and par.
rots sitting around on the trees Every
thing betokens comfort and wealth. If
you don't drlnk. johnnie, you will have
a wife. two children and parrot, and
side whiskers when you are man.
Come, ladies and gentlemen, move on,
don t stand startiug there at one thing 10
hour at time. Here, you big lummox,
cit out of the way and give that woman
with bile on her elbow a chance to see
Pass right on into the next tent.
Oh, father J, come and see this cage of
monkeys. Let 60 my coat-tail, you young
rascal don't tear me to pieces you've
seen them little, nasty monkeys hund-
red times before. Mister, why don't you
give your monkeys fne-tooth combs ?-l
They wouldn't have to work half so hard
if you would.
Look at that showman's red face what
makes him blush so, father? l don't
know, my daughter, unless it is because
be is Good Templar who is on strike, |
Or about to join the larger beer drinkers
eight hour movement. His face looks |
ike piece Of raw beef Yes, that's
fact, and come to think of it, that's why |
be walks up and down before the animal |
cages so as to make them hungry and
keep them in good condition.
Look, Imogene, what an elegant shade
If green on that parrots tail would |
rive the world to have dress of that
shade, and gloves and parasol to match.
That's a pelican, dearest, that bird with
he gator, in the little cage on your left.
rhe thing that looks like a swelling, or
is if it had the mumps, It's the pouch
sbere it lays its eggs and carries its young
until they are old enough to cut bait and
ish for themselves. How does it lay
.ggs in there? That's more than [ know
laturalists state that such is the fact,
however, and that, like the oppossum, it
arries its young there until they can go
t on their own hook.
| don't believe you, Nathaniel, and I'm
.oing to ask that Snowman. Mister, what
: that bladder in under that birds chin
or That what's he uses as life pre-
eryer, madam, when he is out fishing
nd happens to wade into deep hole that
; over his head, which is not often, as
on viii see by the length of them legs
his'n. He frequently fills it up with
sh when travelling, so as to have lunch
nth him. He also puts it over his head
7hen it rains as waterproof. That you,
ir.
Is that an ostrich. sir? Yes'm, that
lie tho hoss stretch so called because he