The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-05
CIRCUMSTANCES.

Tho king of Circumstances was feeling
decidedly cheerful. He had just heard
something that pleased him immensely.
He had sent a legion of Circumstances
against q certain man who had, before
that, been certain of success, and the man,
after desperate struggle, had capitulated
to the legion by dying abjoctly.
So the king of Circumstances smiled
and said to one OF his Circumstances:
THE king desires to be amused. Let
there be gamesp'
BY the tmo the royal procession reached
the Coliseum everything was in readiness.
The crowd was enormous, for the fame
of the kings exceeding choerfulness had
spread quickly, and his subjects knew that
there would DO some particularly fasclnat-
ing games that day
Now, then" began the king, little
impatiently, as soon AS he had settled him
self on tho dlvan in the royal box, what
comes flrst1"
1t was tho custom in the Coliseum to
announce tho programme by the mouth
of Il Circumstance whom they called the
chairman. The chairman had an accent
that belonged to tho English music hall
but that also is merely a circumstance.
"Ili ave to announce, lydius and gen
tlemcn, that Hive been harsked by the
well known Champion circumstance to
Tissue challenge to hany man wot
wishes to meet i'm in foot ring. Ro-
man rulus to prevail. Thumbs down
hand tho whipped man parsses bout.
Thumbs up, hand he goes free. Walk up,
walk upl Docs hany one wish to meet the
Champion
First of all, from far door, issued a
most beautiful girl, slim, tall and garb, d
most delightfully."-. There were huge pufis
in her sleeves that made her hands louk
all the smaller Her gown widcncd n littio
where it came close to her feet, and thus
it was that the Slcndernoss of her waist
seemed more symmetrical than symmetry
itself, her curls were dying into the breeze
little under her large, bchowurnd hat.
her shoes were brown, and h. = step was rs
buoyant us the spring She was singing
something so softly that the crowd only
caught the faintest echo OF it.
And while she was advancing thus,
singing, another door opened, and Cupid
came forth. No sooner had no seen her
than no took aim and sent an arrow
! straight at her heart. AS the shaft
wounded her, the girl turned her eyes soft.
| ly toward the boy and moanGd. She put
her hands to her heart But tho strange
thing was that she held thcarrow fast and
made no effort to pun it forth. So, when
Cupid saw that he had wounded her and
/ that she was glad, he began To run toward
her to kiss her, and she, with one hand
stll clasping the arrow ~ that it went
deeper and deeper into her heart, waited
| for him with parted lips and an invitation
! In her eyes.
The boy was within few yards of her
when II third door opened and there ap
| prnrud u circumstance. Immediately a
most strange change came over the girl
Ilcr eyes turned toward the Circumstance,
and a Stccly look came into them She
drew herself up u little, aud a stern pur
pose Strengthened her mouth
Cupid, wondering and panied, stopped
short She turned away from him, ami
walked toward the circumstance, who
merely stood quito still, smiling mdcOus.
! ly As she went, she tore the arrow o.
Cupid from her heart and threw it before
her into the snwduSt, so that as She strLdC
forward she stepped upon 1t and broke Il
into fragments And while Cupid threw
hn,ali upon lbs pretty face, shaking witt
Noh-. his quiver flung beside liin. the girl
kissed the Circumstance
But thc Circumstance only smiled quit,
collly even while 1t folded her IN it,
arms,
/ For 1t happened to tc Bank Account.
! The King had hyglRl to be quite pleased
! with this numbur whUl u happened that
he trlf an irrs-lsiii,le tti,.,rr 4, yawn il
was really dar 10 lntr hours In the past
but ht decided at ulre tl.u, It must be du,
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