The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-18
ALL Is NOT GOLD THAT aLIrTERs
How Two Boys Worked Hard to Earn
A appointment.

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From the Netc YORK. Tribune.
The news that q circus was coming to the
little town of Y reached that out-of-t the
way place even before the advance agent
with his glittering posters, and created
genuine sensation. The whole country side
was stirred up over it, more or less, but
probably che excitement reached its highest
pitch in the minds Of "Tomn and jerry
twin brothers. aged Is, the leaders of most
OF tho boyish mischief that made the school
Of Y a terror to teachers far and wide.
These two had never seen a circus, though
| they were familiar with them from hear
say and dime novels and the idea that q real,
| live one was coming TO their town set them
wild. They at once laid plans to procure
the price Of admission, so cents each, q small
| fortune to them. Their father was dead,
| aud their mother could not afford, they we'll
knew, to spend 81 on them. They at once
organized an amateur circus among their
| companions, and, after a good deal of re-
hearsal on a parallel bar and trapeze, gave
| public performance, charging l cent
for admission. This Melted only 10 cents,
and Jerry" got q sprained ankle. while
| TOM burst his only pair OF trousers where
| il did the most harm.
| By that time the advance agent arrived
and proceeded to cover the town with post
| ers that took the boys breaths away. For
carrying an immense pail of paste all day,
| they got 10 cents each from the agent and
they had considerable difficulty in ungluiuG
their clothes that night sufficiently to get
them off. But the posters were an I'M
| alloyed delight, and tom" and Jerry"
played hockey in order to stare at them Till
the teacher came himself from the school
| and dragged them away. On these won-
derful posters all the wild animals of the
universe were engaged in a bloody battle to
| the death. A hippopotamus ripped up an
elephant which with his trunk was strang-
ling a tiger, which was chewing a lion,
which was in turn clawing a tender gazelle
that had rushed foolishly into the terrible
struggle In the same jungle polar bear
| was devouring walrus whose tusks were
dangerously near a tall giraffe who was
browsing on a treetop all unconscious Of the
fact that between his very legs an immense
boa constructor was strangllng tapir.
This scene fascinated Tom and Jerry and
they fully eIpecte1 to see 1t enacted at the
circus. 1t divided the attention that other
wise would have been devoted exclusively
TO the pictures of acrobatic young women
in pink tights who leaped through flaming
hoops held at least twenty feet auove their
| bsre-backed horses and the fat girl who was
said to weigh 900 pounds.
In the course of time the circus arrived,
and Tom and Jerry procured the job of
carrying water for the animals to drink,
| from a distant creek, up a steep hill in
| heavy buckets, under the broiling sun, and
for this they got Is cents each. The camel
must have filed all his stomachs twice,
| Jerry thought, before he got through his
task and the elephant must have had hol-
| low legs, Tom said, to drink so much, be-
side filing his trunk with water for some
future occasion. However, they got
through at last, and with blstered hands
aud aching backs. the boys perched them
selves proudly on the hard, narrow seats
| and waited for the glories to unfold.
The circus might have once been fair
sideshow, but it had lost its chief attrac-
| lions, one by one, along the road, through
sheriffs' attachments and other unkind peo--
pie, and what was left was sorry lot in
deed. As the show proceeded, Tom and
Jerry's faces fell snd grew longer and
longer. Finally Tom nudged Jerry
violently.
whats the matter with yer?" asked
Jerry angrily for his heart was sore with
| disappointment.
Let's go out and look at the posters" res
piled Tom. sadly.
And they went.