Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-11-26

Try me, said. I'm in earnest,
and mean it. Mind your balance"
Don't, please" she says then, and
quite started to hear how pitifullv
she spoke.
+" Well, I won't" says, dear, only
let US make it real"
WE'LL" she says, saucily. CT will
make it real" and she hung away from
me fercer than ever, just like Wild
Indian maid, while the people clapoed
again
And she did make it real. for found
the tongue to say so much, that the
piece was acted real right through
and when at last 1t came to her coming
round and resting her arm on nv
shoulder, and me with my arm around
her waist holding Ter right up, and all
the time fourishing my bow in the
other, while the horse went as hard as
he could, felt so happy and satisfied
with Que or two words that had never
been said to me before, that finished
the piece off with what [ mean to say
was real touch of nature. drew her
a little closer TO me, and kissed her,
regularly bringing down the house.
AS we went off, there was Mary's
father, who did the sword trick and
the rings. Fo-to-Li-No was his name
on the bill, because he was a Chinese
in the profession, though we always
called him by his proper name, Badger
Dodd. Well, there was Mary's father,
waiting with shawl and her gooshes !:
and he says to me, very fierce, You're
nation first, Tom French, [ never see
that last bit IN the Flying Indians afore
" No more didn't [, old man" I says.
slapping him on the shoulder; % but
we're gong to make it real"
The old man and I had it over that
nlght-over some stout and oysters
and Mary was there, looking as blush
ing and as sweet as girl could look
and month after, sir, we made it real,
very much to our managers disgust,
for l wouldn't let Mary go into the
ring any more after putting her finger
into the little ring I bought her; and
she had lodgings at Camberwell, and
we were very happy for six years, all
the time could be at home and then
after a months trip, [ got back one
day to find her old father there, for she'd
joined another troupe, and the old chap
had got the news before ] did, and he
shook hands with me, and then broke
down crying like child.
But couldn't cry [ couldn't be-
iieve it; [ couldn't think that it was as
real as all this-that she was gone
gone forever. 1t seemed something [
couldn't understand, though they told
me again and again that she was dead,
and been put IN the cold ground two
days before.
At last, though, it all seemed to
come home to me, and l sat there. T
think, tor three days, doing nothing
hardly but look. At the end of those
three days, my manager came to hunt
me up, and took me back with him in
a cab, and he always was trump to
me, though | never was the same man
again, while p'raps it was all for the
best that poor Mary went, for it saved
her many a heartache and no end of
| poverty.
1t was about a year after she died
that [ was doing clown for the trip,
making faces and saying funny things
over and over again, night after night,
when, while [ was dong half a dozen
somersaults running, [ put one foot on
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anything more about it, sir, only that
l left that town cripple. I get soft if
| think much about it, for I'm afraid ]
was very proud of what was as man.
It's a dangerous life, sir, but in a
struggle for living man must run
risks. and besides, you've risks in all
trades. But really, you know, there's
fatal accident in half of the feats and
scenes as you pay your money to see in
circus though we takes SO much
care and practice so hard that we gen
orally keep the accidents at 8 distance.
Only one more scene after the elephant
comes off, ard then down tent, and a
bit of sleep, and be off. Strange life
amt it sir? Artificial, too; but there's
real side to it; and-there, do you
hear that? that's one of my boys calling
me. There he's peeping around the
corner and giving me the cue in loud
whisper. Gather" he says ; alb and
I like the sound of that word-seems
to warm up ones heart; but there's
always a corner that [ keep for the
recollections of one thing; and that is,
Having it Real.