Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-09

= 49, - . 800 49,
~ nover knew much about cir.
~ whom was little,' said John
1loy the other day, in Benton's
&Ion. "When / was boy my
~ thoueht . circus an abomi-
I'm aud wouldn't allow me to
Onoe I breke away from homo
- 70 night school, but changed
mfnd and went for the circus.
1od to crawl under the tent.
on1y / heard something crack
away went piece out of the
a my trousers, where the
D-lnsh got its work ir. 1t took
0ver an hour to explain TO the
1oIko about the accident.
came out West, and in early
.&o there wasn't much OF run
M cfrcuses. was living in
21GG Valley about sixteen years
10y. when 8 circus came along and
nnted . man to build ring. 1
n never seen one, but took the
- nt nifty dollars, and when he
n1Aiued what he wanted tackled
Had TO get 1t done the next
l[hc; Now, We see, isposed the
(.os and animals cavorted round
F. i The outside of the ring, and go
ado that part very carefully.
1ooo . place where there was
1lloW In the ground and built the
~ around it,
Uarned fool trick" Said Hank
~. "Giue me mother chaw."
8 ~ Xos, / guess it was, as the result
lowed. / filled the hollow spot
With some old stumps aud then
HUoked In lot OF dirt and
Doo(hed 1t all over, thinking the
1lonce wouldn't know the differ.
-, you see. The knots stuck up
y round, but 1 filled In dirt to
VoR sem, and when l got through
: Wa the incest looking ring you
va Jaw. The circus got in the
xt day, and instead Of having o
11eer pole they had two side poles,
~ 20 In putting up the tent they
! INIT disturb the ring, and the
4nager was so well pleased with
~ ring that he ordered no one to
C[1k on It. 1 had sprinkled 1t
Nh sAWdust and 1t was as slick as
pa1lof.
ssVVsll, there was a big crowd
INT night, and when the band
truck up the procession waltzed
~ Great Caesar, how scared was
W1sn the clown went right on the
I16lde Of the ring and began to turn
06mersaultsl He didn't get far be- |
1oto bis head struck u stump, and |
~ gave howl that you could hear |
= mile. Golly! what a round of
1pplause he got, and the boys |
rallied themselves hoarse with fun.
Amt he natural said everybody,
ood ~ he lay there groaning and |
twisting about at the end of those |
ufump roots the cheering and clap |
Dlng WAS deafening. Then the ele.
0hent and a couple of Asiatic cam
- heading q procession of animals
md equestriaps came dashtng in.
Tho elephant went up to his belly
ID the soft dirt, and the camels and
n0rpes began to snort around and
stand ON their heads"
ssChrlstopher Columbus" said
Dos Benton; "wish I'D been there.n
nThe audience all thought this
Wa some new feature, and the
Gqowd outside hearing the shouts,
III bought tickets and went in on
the jump, About this time the ell
'&phant eorter dropped on the bust.
noes and began to pull out the old
5noeo stumps and send them into
4ho audience. ! tell you when
bWo-hundred pound stump went
whaling through the air there was
= scattering. After throwing out
the stumps-about o dozen-he
started in to clean up the balance |
81 the rubbish. He grabbed the
poor clown around the waist and
chsckeo hinn. smack biH, into the
band. Talk about aerial lights,
that curve he took of q hundred and
twenty feet was considered the boss.
He reached for the women in
epangled trunks and dropped 'em
xiGht into the best society in Grass
Valley. Madame De Castillo, the
ejghtrOpe dancer, went plum
through weak spot in the tent |
and landed in Parson Bigelow's
oack yard without stitch on her."
Here the narrator paused for
is that ALE" asked one of the |
60stleFs.
THAT was the last saw. left |
the tent about that time to get my
9foef cAshed at the office outside
4efore the manager cancelled it. III
Eoe my pay all right, but my con-
19tenoe troubled me so that l paid
al back again to the different cir