New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-12
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ALL rs NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS.
HOW TWO BoYs WORKED HARD TO EARN A
DISAPPOINTMENT.

HOW TWO BoYs WORKED HARD TO EARN
DISAPPOINTMENT.
The news that a circus was coming to the little town
of y reached that outofthe-way place even ueioro
the advance agent with his gittcrng posters ana cre
ated genuine sensation The whole countryside was
stirred up II, more or less. but probaby eieA
element reached Its highest pitch in the minds Oh
Tom and jerry twin brothers, aged thirteen the
leaders of most Of the boysh mischief that made the
school OF y terror TO teachers far and wide.
These two had never seen circus, though they were
familiar with them from hearsay and dime novels ana
the idea that real live one was coming to their town
set them wild. They at laid plans TO procure the
price Of admission, 80 cents each. small fortune TO
them. Their father dead and their mother could
not Afford they well knew, to spend 81 on them. They
at once organized an amateur circus among their COM
| panons, and. after good deal OF rehearsal on
parallel bar and trapeze. public performance
charging one cent for admission. This nettcd only 10
cents and Jerry" got sprained ankle while Tom
burst his only pair Of trousers where 1t did the most
harm.
BY that time the advance agent arrived and pro-
ceeded to cover the town with posters that took the
boys breaths away. For carrying an immense pail OF
paste all day, they got ten cents each from the agent.
and they had considerable difficulty in unglung their
clothes that night sufficiently to get them of. But the
posters unaoycd delight, and Tom ana
L" Jerry" played hockey in order to stare at them
til the teacher himself from the school
and dragged them away. on these wonderful
posters all the wild animals OF the universe were
engaged in a bloody battle TO the death. hippo
potamlis ripped up an elephant which with his trunk
was stranglng tiger which was chewing Hon. which
was In turn cawinG tender gaelic that had rushed
loolishy into this terrible struggle. In tile same
Jungle n polar bear was dcvouring walrus whose
tusks were dangerously tall giraffe who was
browsing on a teeop all unconscious OF the fact tlae
between his very legs immense boaconstrctor was
strangling tlpir
THIS scene fascinated Tom and Jerry and they fully
expected TO see II enacted the circus. Ii divided
the attention that otherwise would have been devoted
exclusively to the pictures OF acrobatic yeung women
I'm pink tights who eapcd through flaming hoops held
at least twenty feet above their barebacked horses
ana the fat girl who was said to weigh 1000 pounds.
In the course Of time the circus arrived, ana Tom
and Jerry procured the Job OF carrying water for
the animals to drink, from distant creek up steep
hill In heavy buckets under the brong sun. and for
this they got twenty-five cents each. Tile camel must
have filed all his stomachs twice, Jerry thought. be-
fore he got through his task, and the elephant must
have had hollow legs Tom said, TO drink so much,
beside filling his trunk with water for some future
OCCASION However they got through at last. and
with blstcrcd hands and aching backs the boys
and waited for the eOrics 10 unfold.
The circus might have once heen fair side-show,
hut had its chief attractions, one by one along
the road through slerfs attachments and other mn
kind people and what left a sorry lot indeed:
AS the show proceeded Tom and Jcirys faces fell ana
grew longer and longer Finally Tom nudsed Jerry
"Whai's the matter with yer?" asked Jerry. an:
grily, for his heart was sore with DISAPPOINTMENT
Lets go out and look at the posters replies
And they went