St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-07
VOLUME 47---NUMBER 2428.

in her coffin, which will look strangely
I cut of place, as none ever came into her
married life.
Twice she made feeble attempts to
bring some cheerfulness into their
home. She worked her husband a
pair of slippers for Christmas, and
| placed a bunch of snow w-drops on the
| table at Easter. He grutfiy told her to
''talle 'em away. and not inkeridge the
scarlet woman by bringing snch popish
nOtiens into the heouse." The country
fences, barns. taverus, rocks and land
scape We're once ablaze with flaming
posters announcing the coming of a
travelling circus and menagerie. She
gazed on those pictured wonders on.
the monkey parodies, pathetic camels,
repulsive serpents, ieaping tigers, fly
ing figures, complacent fat women,
bushy-haired frauds, dissatisfied AL
binos, pompous dwarfs, sunshiny
giants, the sacred COW of Burmah, and
the BehemOth of Scripture. Her very
soul ached with an intense longing to
behold those oriental animals from
| far-away tropical countries, from
"Atric's burning sands of which she
| had read in the Bible aud in Little
Henry and His Bearer. Was it possi-
bic that those huge, ungainly ele-
plants could stand on their heads,
planks and barrels, play tunes on
hand-srgans, and do other undreamed-
of things, perfectly unnatural and un-
pleasant to an elephant Was it true
that horses waltzed and dogs hung
each Other2 That woman could be
shot from IA cannon, and a tatooed man
walk shiveringly about clad only in
his cashmere skin, and gauzy beings
fly through hoops of fire over the
backs of horses that had to make up
their minds to stand it 1t was Won
derful, fairy tale, a myth, perhaps.
Everything was reversed, the toes of
the riders, the clown in the ring, the
ideas and trunks of the elephants
Seeing was believing, and she wanted,
oh, how she wanted to go! 1t would
be the one great pleasure, the one
grand epoch of her dreary life. Only
those who have been forced to remain
in the unvarying routine of hard work,
care and unending monOtony, can ap-
preciate the happiness it would be,
could this down trOdden little Yankee
woman go to the circus. She read on
the brilliant posters that "people,
press and pulpit commended this great
moral show, unparalleled in grandeur
and magnificence, and that nothing
was said, seen or done that could
offend the most moral and fastidious
person." To be sure the Zion's Herald
had not advertised it, and she had not
yet heard it indOrsed by their own
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