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


old grandmother made fun of you? Why,
allr'
Did you ever see a circus, Grandmoth-
mo never They didn't have them
where / lived
why hat-what sort of a place
with some ditlidence and look of wonder
in his appealing big blue eyes.
.Oh. very. good place-eXcept that they
didn't have circuses there
oh" said Billy then, with infinite COM
passion in his tone.
And when l grew UP I was in a city;
and ] was busy. l went to other places:
/ was ignorant | didn't know a circus
was so delightful
at is delightful Isn't it. Grandmother? p
why, you tell me so. That's a big pep
for the heart-shaped ones. You have such
warm little heart of your own"
! wish YOU could see circus, Grand
~ have no doubt 1 should enjoy it,
said Grandn other with caImness.
.'Oh, ] know you wouldr'
But circuseS are not for me-.
Il don't see why.
'sDoa't see why" with less calmness.
.'when ] can't move out oil nv chair all
day, and only look at the world from that
little balcony half full of fower-boxes,''
II suppose you could be carried in the
hand-barroH," said Billy ,doubtfully.
am like the girl in the song?" said she.
And then she sang in her sweet, thin, old
voice:
no. won't be nun,
Oh I won't be a nun,
! am so fond of pleasure
I could never be num-
Put l don't want you to be a num-
said Billy. a little undetermined regarding
her meaning. l only want you to go to
.'What would be said OF person who
wanted to see circus so badly she had
to be carried to it on a barrow? They d
%~1~ !, -fa1rNx la<
worse than the old woman on her white
horse at Bambury Cross"
Ibid that mean Queen Elizabeth, Grand
mother There's a. picture of her in my
history on her white horse
dear soul, how many questions you do
well" said Billy, when he had salts
factorily tipped a tfinble on the end of
his nose, You know if you didn't want to
so all the way to the tent and see the
whole show, part of it comes out in the
streets, and you could see that IL you
would go over to Capitol street.
Why, Billy McKilly, what are you
thinking of? It's half mllei-I do wish
you'd let my worl1basket alone
well, it's worth going a whole mile to
Inother?''
''That thimble? don't know What
do you want it for?"
Its got a hole m 1t. It'd make an
elegant sinker, you know
ooh ! don't want you to go fishing Tn
afraid you'll get drowned. No; you can't
have the tumble
"As If I was a girl Men don't get
drowned when they go fishing. I'll run
st fall of lead. Oh. Grandmother. l wish
you could go to the circus. / should so
like TO take you to the circusi ] should
like to hear you laugh when the clown
gets the whip cracked at him. 1t makes
your heart just beat when you see the
great tent swell up there, and the sun
shine through the flag on top of it, and
all T1Nr at n md ran NfNTaff
know, you don't know what it means.
you know-you only know lists finer
cried Billy. And there's all sorts of
crowd outside and men hollering, and
men asleep in the grass under the edge
of the tent-theyye been up all night
loading and unloading and driving stakes
20 inside, 1t seems as IL the roof was a
ground glass shade, you know; and the
smell of the grass is just the sweetest
smell. and there's crowds and crowds of
faces. and it's warm, and there's lemon
aie, pink lemonade. And they corae rid
ing in. Oh, it's splendid the knights
and ladies dressed in gold cloth-and
the clown-he bets he can do what the
Others do and makes mess of Ii, and
he winks at you and puts his finger
through the paper hoops
Ties a sort of bad silly boy grown UP,
4 suppose" said Grandmother
II don't know. Sometimes he makes
believe 20 be astonshed at the others,
and then all of sudden he turns sum-
erset over the backs OF four elephants at
once. and does bettern all. And oh, you
are so pleased, and you clap and holler
Ike everything. And then there's the
beautiful lady in short dresses dancing
on horse5aca-I suppose she's lady.
but perhaps"
s.She's falry?"
.sThere amt any such thing, Grand
mother! ] should think you thought was
g. little boy,''
Dear sakes, nor
"And there's the flying trapeze, too
Billy resumed, IF you don't shut your
ewes. And there's a boy rides round the
ring standing on one foot on a horse
without a saddle, going hckety-spllt, and
the band plays every minute, and the
ring-Ina ster--oh, he's a daisy.
s.Nliat does he DO? Yes, that's a darn
ing needle, and that's a mattress needle,
and this is a common needle, and you
may thread it for me. Why Billy Nc
Kitty, are you left-handed?"
no. But-vou sse-oh. he cracks his
WHIP and he says..This way, Mr. Merry
man aid they all mind him like row
Qf bricks. Id like to be that boy hanging