The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-07-25
Goiug so the Circus

e p
No, madame, We would not charge a
cent; our book keeper Is sick, but you
/ will have topay halfprco before he eau
enter. Why, hc aiu't but tcnl Can't help
that madame, them feet OF his Il what
takes mp room, ought 10 ask YOU Dol.
lar and a hall, but twenty-five cents will
do. Well there's Your money, but It's a
swindle--gome along darling,
What on hcyin and aiuh ails you, John
Simmit, that you drag that child right by
everything aud don't give him q chance
to see anything. Slack up little; I've
paid for these tickets, aud am going to
see what's going on, and If it don't suit
you can poke ahead.
There, Isabel, look there, don't YOU
see his jaw drop, and chest 60 up aud
down; That is the dying gouayo just as
he looked when he was dying o, my, |
can't look at him, Johni keep hold Of my
hand. Is he alive? No; he's embalmed,
and they run the body by steam, so the
show feller told me. That woman there
is his sweetheart, waiting for his eve to
get dim so he can't see her go for his
watch and poeket-book to remember him
| by.
Get oflmy corns, you tamal great hub
Der you, can't You get around without
running over people? If / had you out
side ia put such o head on you YOU
would baye TO get into your shirt feet
first for a month. Got to step some
where: Well what Of II? You had better
keep off from my mud hooks, confound
/ your picture,
/ There my children you see an allcgOr-
ical representation of what drinking leads
TO. There Is "the drunkard and his fam
/ ily." Oil most horrible of all! Here
Maria hold the twins mp so they can have
a good view, while boost Johnnie.
What ails that woman's eye pa? and her
| legs is cut Off That is the effect of
whisky, my child. The drunkard has
"pastcd" her one on the eye, and the
stutling has run out OF her legs from rid
/ ing on the cars. But sec that big bottle
sticking out of the mans 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 vest pockets. But you
must take warning, my SOD, and never
carry the accursed stuff thus; hide it in n
more secret plaoe--in your boot.
There! there it is-the family of the
temperate man in that cage. Look, chill
drenl 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 the week. See the bullfnches and par
rots sitting around on the trees. Every
thing betokens comfort and wealth. If
you don't drink, Johnnie, you will have
wife, two children and parrot aud side
whiskers when you are a man.
Come, ladies and gentlemen, move on;
don't stand staring there at one thing an
hour at time. Here, you big lummox,
get out of the way and give that woman
with bile on her elbow q chance to see.
Pass right OH into the next tent.
Oh, iatherl come and see this cage Of
monkeys. Let 90 my coat-taiI, you young
rascal don't tear me TO hieces; you've
see them little nasty monkeys a hundred
times before, Mister why don't you give
your monkeys fine-tOoth combs? They
wouldn't have to work half so hard If you
would.
Look at that showman's red face what
makes him blush 50, father. don't know
my daughter, unless it is because he 7 a
good templar who is on strike, orabout
tojoin the lager beer drinkers eight hour
movement. Ills face looks like piece Of
raw beef Yes, that's a fact, aud come to
think Of it, that's why he walks mp aud
down before the animal cages so as 10
make them hungry aud keep them 10
good condition.
Look, lmogene, what an elegant shade
Of green on that parrots tail; / would
give the world 10 have dress Of that
shade, and gloves and parasol to match. /
That's pelican, dearest, that bird with
the goiter, in The little cage on your left. |
The thing that looks like a swelling, or as
if II had the mumps, lis the pouch where
it lays its eggs and carries its young un.
til they are old enough to cut bait ard fish /
for themselves. How does Il lay eggs IN /
tberei That's more than know. Nat
uralists state that such IL the fact how. I
ever, aud like the opossum, it carries its
young there umii Thy can 20 II 90 their
own hook. i
don't believe you, Nathaniel, aud l'm
going to ask the Snowman. Mister, what
il that bladder IN under that birds chin
iory That's what il uses a. 4 liie pre-
server, madam, when be Is out fishing
and happens to wade into d deep hole
that II over bis head, which is not often.
~ you win see by the length Of them legs
O his'n. lie frequently tils tup with
hsh when travelling, 70 as 70 haze a lunch
with bin. lie also puts Il over bis head
when Il rains a. a waterproof Thank
you, sir.
4 that aH ostrich sir2 Yes'm, that his
the hoss+treteb; 50 called because be
runs faster than any Or, add stretches
bic meek al The time ior grub. We jast
feed i'm a Eeg VI railroad spikes, mum,
but # you hafe a p0cket-kuie that you
would Ike t0 gfFe 'im. I qgfH sfa fbsf Ia,