The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-23

exclaimed dropping the wax. and the scis-
sors and the bodkins;, Why, It's the bis
great Biblical and Scrip-turai SHOW
:. is it; truly? A real holy show. Now
# you'll kindly pick up the things you
Yes, viii. 1 will. But I wish you
could 81 see =, that parade. Why, there's a
"A troop of Elephants! L should want
to run, the first thing, and 1 couldn't
SO. you see its Just as well as it is"
! 'Oh, no. indeed. they're tame as cats
They let you ride on their backs"
backs!' e--
But. Grandmother = somehow you
Very disappointing. Well, my poor
dear little man. it's a shame! If a boy
mother, what is she good fori Yes. I
should like to see the parade drawing
him to her; kissing his chubby brown fist
! from Biily's honest brow And as that
is impossible. you tell me all about it,
49, We'll said Billy, squaring himself for
Sunderland, and he SAYS it's over a mile lie
long, almost. And after the elephants
o oIo4ss lot of camels with red saddle
1 Hecks-and they look cross-that's their
faees;-ard they have door-mats, sort of.
o on Ihelr shoulders; and an Arab riding
every one; real Arab, Grandmother,
there's a girl driving forty borses- 1easu
mere is, Johnny says SO! My! And
tnere's team with pair of lions chained
! by the feet and standing by each lion is
another girl: Shouldn't you think they'd
be AFRAID raid shouldn't. But they're girls.
gGm know; IA liket9 do-and then said
ladies' and gentlemen on horseback; and
there's the great gold chariots with brass
eands IN them; and there's cages and
cages of animals, all locked up, except the
poiaf bear, and he's sitting on a block of
ice, and the men turn buckets of water
over MN when they come to a hydrant-
Proprietor, they call him-the master OF
II all IN buggy. And it's a great deal,
you know, just to see him
Il should like to see him." admitted
Grandmother.
"oh, | thought you would" said Billy.
And there's a lot of Shetland ponies, the
teentiest, tauntiest little things with the
I;ttle boy, and girl each riding one of
them, ard everybody cries out at that.
you know. and cheers thenl-Td like to be
land there's the donlzeys," said Billy.
catching himself again, and the trick
mules and the clowns and the-oh. | for
got the best of all! There's a whole regi-
ment-I guess of soldiers riding in red
coats. with little flags on the tips of their
spears-the Boston lalIcers-''
oh, no, not in circus. Not in that
We'll then, the cadets
"Oh, no, it can't be-
"Why not?"
why rot, indeed" said Grandmother
We'll. then. maybe it's zouaves But at
any rate. Grandmother. they're soldiers.
they truly are. real live men, who've
Fine work for them now. then"
es, lsr it,? said the innocent Billy
And, GRANDMOTHER, don't you think /
ingg'
and is that what it all means? oh,
Billy said Grandmother. well, then,
you dear rogue, yes, you may. Run
along! III make it right with your ia
Their"
Grandmother, said Billy. getting her
I mead IN nus arms, and hugging it. to the
dear. You're a great deal better than
Johnny Carey's grandmother She's aw-
full strict with Johnny, She makes him
learn a verse Of a psalm every time he
without his supper the night he ran away
to sunderland- and they had raspberry
jam that night, too. I'm glad you're my
mother / ever had. Sor' And having
finished hIgging her, and having finished
too, the difficult Ntask of setting her
pretty balcony with its flowers and
stepped out and craned his neck up and
down the street to ascertain If, by any
chance. one sitting there could see the
great parade, as it passed out of Capital
street into the square
1T makes a fellow feel mean" said
Billy, Ito go off and have a good time,
my dear little Billy, said Grand
mother, ,n;tiltl,r II am having good time in
And you never saw one, either,' re-
peated Billy, like the buzzing of an in
extinguishable fly. IT say, It's too bad,
And you don't know how splendid the
chariots, are-and the husband the
clown-oh, he is SO funny-sometimes he
gets real mad with the boys. If the pa
rade was going to pass through this
street."
Pass through this street, Why. of
course not. 1t isn't even streetv'
Billy looked up and down. No, it wasn't |
even street; it was sort of green close |
or court; but it had an avenue for car
riages in the middle ofIits velvet turf |
that led through q broad gateway into |
the great square of the library buildings |
and out to the street beyond. Only ele-
CANT carriages now and then rolled along |
the avenue. Even the grocers' carts,
with their daring and dexterous Jef7us. |
drove up through back alleys to the |
houses This was the abode of aristo- |
cratic stiffness and narrow seclusion. |
No; no parades ever passed this way. |