Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-03

he IS gong 10 SEQ Boum-BOum."
when tho door opened and showed
the clown, Jacques Lcgand cried
out ioyfully TO his son,
"FIuncois, DO, happy, childl Sec,
here lac IL, Boum Rgumw
A lool, Of grcatFoy umc over the
child's face. lie raised himself on
his mothers arm and turned his
head toward the two mon who mp
preached questioning. Tor n mo.
mont who 70 was by the side of his
flther-this gentleman In an over
coat, whose good, pleasant face he
did not know
When they said 10 him, ut is
Boum-Boumw he slowly fen back on
the pillow and remained there, his
eyes fixed, his beautiful Large. blue
eyes which looked beyond the walls
OF the httlo room and were always
seeking the spangles aud the buttog.
fly of Boum- Boum, like a lover who
pursucs his dream.
mo, " replied the child with voice
which was no longer dry, but fun Of
despair, ny, It is not Boum.Boum. "
Tho clown, standing near tho little
bed, throw u on the child an earnest
look, very grave, but of an incxprcss.
IDLE sweetness
Ho shook his head, looked at the
anxious father. the grief stricken
mother, and said, smiling, He is
right, this is not Boum-Boumn and
then he wont out.
II cannot SEQ linn. / will never see
Boum. Bomn any moroT repeated the
child whose little voice spoke to the
angels. 'Boum Boum is perhaps
there, there, whcro little Francois
will soon TO-"
Aud slddonly-it was only hnlf an
hour siucu thc clown had disappeared
tho door opened quickly and IN his
black, spangled clothes, his yellow
cap II his head, the gildod butterfly
ON breast aud ON his back, with a
o. big AS the mouth of q money
boX and a powdered face, Boum'
Boum, the true Boum Boum. tho
Boum Doum Of the circus, tho Boum.
Boum OF the popular noighborhoo1,
the Boum.BoWm Of littlo Francois
Doum.Boum appeared
Lying ON his little white bed the
I child clJppod his thin little hands,
laughing, crying, happy, saved, with
q joy Of life in his eyes, and cried
"bUvo" with his sovcn-year gayaty
which all at once yindlod up like q
| mutch.
"Boum.Bouml 1t Is he, It IL he
this timcl Here is Boum-Boum
Long 1.-Two B3mB ouml Good day
Boum.Boum."
Aud when the doctor camo bacl
ho found seated by little Francois
bedside a clown with n pale face who
made the little ono laugh again an,
again, and who said TO tho chilt
while hc wnsstirring a piece Of sugar
into "a cup Of medicine;
Thou knowcst If thou dost mo-
drink, little Francois, Boum.Boun
will not come back any morc.'
SO the child drank.
rs 1t not goDdN
VERY gooll Thanks, Boum
Bsgm"
"Doctor," said the clown 20 III,
doctor, do not be jealous. 1t seem,
10 me that my grimaccs win do hin
as much good as your proscriptionsg
The father and mother wcpt, but
this time from Joy.
/ Until little Francois was on hi,
feet again cairiago stopped cycry
day before the dwelling OF Il work
man In the street of tho Abcsscss. Al
Montmartrc, nnd a man got out will
u gay powdered face, cnyeloped il
an oycrcoat with the collar turno,
back, and underneath 1t ono coul,
See a clowns costume.
what do ! owe you, monsieur
said jacques NJ lust TO tho master
clown when the child took his frs
walk, for now | owe you some
thing
The clown stretched out his two
soft, hcrculoan hands TO the parents
"A shake Of the handw said he.
Then placing two great kisses OF
the once moro rosy checks Of til,
child:
And" laughing, permission t
pat ON my visiting card,
"BOUM-nOuAL
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