Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-11-16
A Circus Romanee.-The Fat Girl and
the Living Skeleton.

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the Living Skeleton.
Il want a bundle Of old papers?''
"What do you want them for?"
"Well, you see, after We get done
reading them, We feed them to the
only Egyptian Bovaltus, 10 clear his
voice, besides the patent medicine adj
vertisements in the papers purify his
system and prevent him from con-
tracing the chills, and other malarial
attractions you have down here in
Texas"
"You seem to be connected with a
circus?"
"Yes, 1 travel with the circus.
How did you come to find it out. Who
gave me away?"
"Just guessed it."
"Well, you come around and see
our cur1osities. You may not have
the curiosity to e them, but we have
the curiosity to show"
ssTo what curiosities do you re-
fer?"
1--WE have a living skeleton who is
thinner than the defense in the star
route cases. He is so thin that when
we were in Georgia he frequently re-
ceived an immense popular applause,
being mistaken for Alex. Stephens.
Then we have got a fat girl who kicks
the beam at 573 pounds. I mean,
%fguratively speaking you know. OF
course, she couldn't kick up at all,
and she wouldn't do it if she could,
for she is very shy and retiring, ow-
ing, I suppose, to her having travelled
with a ciIUus. That brings out all the
latent modesty there is in a person."
"How long have you been travelling
with a circus?"
mot very long, but don't you put
any of these statistics in your paper.
She is very musical, but of course
she can't get close enough to a piano
to play on it, so she has to sit off
and strike the keys with a couple of
croquet mallets. It's wonderful,
wonderful"
"She must be quite a contrast to
the living skeleton"
"She is, but the funniest part of it
is that he began to pay her attentions,
and finally he fell in love with her,
and offered her his hand-skeleton
hand and told her he would stand
between her and the storms of adver-
sity. Just think of it-she as big as
u Of those water tanks you
see on the railroad, and he only
weighing GO pounds when he has got
an overcoat on. But he was dead in
earnest. He told her if she would be
his she would never regret it; that he
never knew what love was until he saw
her."
'41ow did she take it,"
".She just laughed at him. The
SO comical that it put her in
ehumor, and she laughed and
and grew fat. The more she laughed
the fatter she got, and the circus has
increased her wages, because she
laughed 175 pounds to her weight in
few weeks"
"How did the living skeleton take
it,"
''Poor fellow, it nearly killed him.
He fell off one pound and ahalf in two
weeks. That's not as big a falling
off as that Of the republican vote in
Ohio, but it is right smart for a man
only weighing about sixty pounds,
after a square meal. He has never
smiled since. that day when, on his
attempting to encircle her waist with
his anatomical right arm, she threat
ened to sit down on him."
"They are thrown a great deal to-
gether travelling on the cars"
II should say they were thrown to-
gether a great deal on these Texas
railroads, but they were thrown more
together yesterday, about fifteen
miles from Austin, than they have
eve been before. They were in the
same car with q lot of other curiosi-
ties, and there was a break down on
the train"
"Do you mean a niger dancer"
"No, l mean a smash-up. Their
car stood up on n end, and re-
manned that way, all the occupants,
according to the laws of gravitation,
being jammed together. 1 was afraid
everybody was killed. Mr.. Doris,
n Of the proprietors, was nearly
crazy, for fear some one of the mid
gets and the fat women had tele-
scoped. 1t was dreadful. The liv-
ing skeleton was jammed up in one
corner with the fat girl and two mid
gets on top. 1 should say they we're
thrown into each others company
some, but the living skeleton didn't
mind it. He said that the half hour
he spent in her company was the hap
piest in his life. We pulled him out of
q window, but we had the mischief of
a time getting the fat girl out-had to
lift her ont with a derrick"
"Do you think she will ever look
upon the living skeleton otherwise ex-
cept in the light Of a brother?"
"She hates him worse than ever.
Poor devil, I feel sorry for him, but
the fats in the fire now, after what
he did this morning."
"What did he do?"