The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-08-04
SHE COULDN'T HOLD HIM.
The Old Man Got Too Near the Circus and
What Came Of 1t,

What Came Of 1t.
The other morning an aged couple, who
,ad driven thirteen miles to see the circus,
,itched theii team near the western hay.
market, says the Detroit Free Press.
When old Dobbin had been secured they
moved across 10 the big teniiand the wo.
man said:
"Now, Perry, don't get excited. A cir.
Gus is circus the world over. Wen 90
slow, see everything on the outside, and
then jog back hum" ea~'
"Alebbe we'll 90 In" replied the old
man.
"Mebbe we won't! You solemnly prom.
ised the over and over agin before we left
hum that you wouldn't go in and shall
hold you to It. We'd look putty in cir
Gus, wouldn't wei"
II didn't promise nuthin' about side
shows" observed Perry, ~ they edged
along with the crowd. "Here's them wild
men Of Bunkio or Barney.0h, or some such
place in Europe. I've allus heard and read
Of 'em, and I've allus said I'd see EN- i'll
ever got chance"
"Perry Baker, are you demented?" she
asked. "You let me catch you sneakin'
into side show and III never live with
you another day!'
The dulcet tones Of the keeper Of lem.
onade stand now fell upon their ears. and.
the old man was licking his chops and bear
ing off In that direction, when his wife
checked him with:
"What you after nowl faint Ave min
its since you swallered pint Of cold tea,
and you amt bit thirsty! Perry, don't
you undertake to sneak out of your prom.
jse!"
The couple got along down to where the
living skeleton and the fat woman and
great contortionist held out, and the man
at the door called out:
fright this way, old man! This is your
only chance to see living man weighing
only twenty-five pounds!"
"I'm COMMIT" shouted Perry in reply.
"Not rod-not foot!" said his wife, as
she seized his arm.
."I'm goin' to see that skeleton II It takes
a leg! It's the fust chance ever had, and
it may be the last!"'
But he didn't go in. She walked him
aside, lodged two peanut stands, crawled
under three wagons, just missed snake
exhibition, and held him up on the outskirts
Of the crowd, and calmly remarked:
"You promised and promised, and now
you want to break It, Perry Baker, we're
goin' hack hum, and, when we git out past
the toll gate, you'n will have settle
ment."
"Say, let's go clear around the tent
"Not a rod"
"Lets have one glass Of lemonade'"
mot a swaller. Perry. You come
hence"
He crossed to the wagon with her, and
she climbed In. While she was lifting her.
self up he bolted, and when she turned
around, he was gone-mixed up with the
circus crowd. She stood up and called
him by name as loud as she could yell un.
til policeman ordered her to stop, and
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sixteen years old:
"Bub, want you to come with me. My
old man has cut loose, and he'll neter stop
SEEM wild men and Twin skeletons and
fat women and red lemonade as long as he's
got cent left. III give ye aquarter II We
find him. want to steal on him before he
knows it. want to find him in front Of
the only boa constructor on the North
American continent, and want to open
performance which will discount the circus
all holler."
She was last heard at the door Of the cir
Gus. Having failed to find him elsewhere,
she was about to pass In, when the ticket
taker objected.
"But Tn lookin' for Perry"
'"Can't help it, ma'am."
"Won't you find out II Perry is in there;"
she persisted.
"Can't leave the door, ma'an-better get
club and wait for him! Fall back-fall
back-tickcts on this side!"
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