The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-05
MRS. BLINKINS.
And How the Good Lady Attend
ed the Circus.

ed the Circus.
They had just eaten breakfast last Fri
day morning, and Mr.. Blinkins was about
to take his departure, when Mrs. b. said
IL see there's to be q circus in town to-
morrow"
"Y-e-e-s," answered her husband, as he
lit two-for-a-nickel cigar with q match;
"but what of iii"
"Oh, dunno; never was at . circus,
and thought I'D like to Co."
Like to 60! Well, I'm blamed You'd
cut a pretty figure at q circus, now wouldn't
you, old ladyT
"Oli, indeed! Jonathan Blinkins, I'll
have you to know Pm ten years younger
than you, you bald-headed, dilapidated old
| rooster
"Don't keer il you are, you're Is gray as
. rat and hain't got tooth in your head
but what my hard cash paid for, and say
you're too old to 60 to circus"
And say" said Mrs. Blinkins,
your own business and ri lis 20 to ok tIst circus
! if want to, and if you don't like it you
can just-just-sct q divorce ~ qnick as
you please"
"Who wants q divorce?' he yelled; and
then he glared at Ms. b. for q minute,
grabbed bis hat, put it on hind side before,
aud mu,tering something about dun
contrary wOmsn," went out, slamming the
door until the motto bearing the words,
there's no place like home" hanging
above the mantle, quivered like an ague
chill.
Haunt lived with you for twenty years
for nothin'," said Mrs. B. to herself, land
I'm going to that circus tomorrow after
noon if Fifty cents and q good strong will
can take me there"
Mr.. Blinkins came home as usual to his
meals, but tie matter Of going to the cir
Gus was not referred to again, and after
dinner yesterday Mrs. B. put on her
alpaccs dress, her best bonnet, her shawl,
and with her cord reticule on her arm and
an umbrella in her hand, as it looked q
little like rain. took her way to where the
big white tent hid the mysteries of the cir
Gus.
She vas q little bewildered by
the gaping and noisy crowd
about the tent, and when she
finally got to where the man
was selling tickets, she hardly knew wheth-
O. she was family, or . single individual
She however took the bit of pasteboard
rendered her. handed over her fifty cents in
exchange, and in another minute was in
the tent where the animals were.
She looked about and soon found herself,
by the pressure of the crowd, standing in
front of one of the cages where the zebra
was confined. She looked at the animal a
second, and then opened her reticule, took
out her spectacles, put them on and looked
again.
At last smile spread over her face, and
she remarked to . young man standing be-
side her:
"Them fellers are pretty cute, but they
can't fool me with their painted mules,
and she moved along to where the bears
were about to begin . meal on about half a
ton of raw beef.
"Mister," said she to the man who was
feeding them, IF were in your place, I'D
feed them animiles on cooked meatlbut !
reckon you're . kia1 of . shiftless set,
and she smiled blandly at him as she
passed on.
The next place she paused was in front
of the hyena, and she looked long and
earnestly at the animal, and at last reached
over and pOked at it with her umbrella.
The beast made . spring at
it and the next minute it was torn from
her hand and bitten clear through.
Mrs. b screamed, and fat man along
side of her in attempting to rescue the um-
brells, stepped ON her pet corn and the
scene was one of general confusion. 1t was
sometime before order was restored, but
finally that result vas accomplished and
Mrs B. found herself again in motion, this
time stopping in front of the Gorillo.
Il declare" said she, viewing the ami
street clerks, what do you call it,"
American Dude. warented to be all wool,
yard wide, and will not split at the seams,
even Of Sunday evening" and the keeper
laid his hand on his heart as if overpower-
ed by the worth of his charge.
"Well lawks % said Mrs. B 81 can't say
as think its very handsome, but perhaps
it will look better when it gets out and
stands on the corner as you 60 10 the post
Office" and the keeper answered, "Very
likely" as she once more went on.
The bird cages were visited, the monkyes
were gazed at, the elephants and panthers
examined, and then Mrs. B. was ready to
60 into the larger tent where the sawdust
ring was located.
She had only just got
seated when the grand entree was
made by the glit,ering array of ladies and
gentlemen connected with the circus, and
Mrs. B. nearly fell between the seats, she
was so excited. She put her spectacles on,
took them Of, and rubbed them, and then
said to q young man and his sweetheart
beside her:
"Look pretty we'll, don't they"
ooh. tol'bul; but wait till the circus be-
gins if you want TO see something"
Mrs. B. waited, and by q superhumAn
effort kept quiet until the trick mule lad
been shown, the acrobats and the strong
man had been witnessed, and the gymnasts
had gone through their serial feats. Then
it was announced by the ringmaster that
Nadmoiselle Something or other would
now 70 through some astonishing results
in equestrianism-"the greatest ever per-