River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-07-25
SOME CIRCUS POINTERS.
She Did q Few Tricks Herself and Wanted
to Learn More.

She Did q Few Tricks Herself and Wanted
to Learn More.
AS / purchased my ticket to go into
the circus which was exhibiting in a
town at the foot of Cumberland range,
a little old woman who wore poke
bonnet and was without shc s or
stockings beckoned me aside and said:
Look yere, stranger. I've walked
ten miles to see this yere circus"
YES"
81 reckoned to git in fur two bits,
but can't do it. The price is TO bits
and they won't abate. Do vs. know
any of the sarcus folks?''
''No, don't"
IF yo' did they might abate. kin
do some sarcus tricks myself, and meb-
be they'd let me in free. Cum out yere
and see me flop a summersault, as they
calls it"
Really, ma'am, haven't time"
"Wall, then, give me room and see
me turn a cart-wheel. / kin do it as
slick as any man yo' ever seed"
'Yes, presume SO, but can't spare
the time"
I've walked the top-rail of a fence
fur half mile without fallin' off, ;" she
continued. land believe could walk
a rope Git outen the way and I'll
show yo' handspring as good as yo'
ever saw.
please don't, ma'am. If you want
to go into the circus"
''Yo' kin boot that / want TO so into
the sarcusr' she interrupted. That's
what I'm we're fur. Whenever a sarcus
Gums along ! git thar il | kin and ketch
on to all the new flip-iops. The ole
man is sick and couldn't cum, but l
promised him to hev good look at the
hyenas and tell him all about 'em. AS
fur me, I'm bound and determined TO
ride that trick mewl twice around the
ring or perish in the attempt What
was yo' goin' to say?'
Il was going to say that I'd pay
the other two bits and take you with
me-"
Wouldn't 20 do that fur pore ole
woman who hain't seen a sarcus fur
two y'are?' she anxiously said.
''Of course"
/ got her a ticket and we passed in
together, and at her request l hunted
up the cage of hyenas the first thing
She stood and looked at them for five
minutes before saying:
wall. ] don't see whar' the purti-
ness comes in, but the ole man is
crazy bout hyenas- Now fur the sar-
Gus"
We sat down together, and she took
great interest in and vigorously APP
plauded every feat BY and by, when
the trick mule was brought in and the
usual announcement was made. she
sprang up and vas at the ringside be-
fore any one else could move. Every
body laughed, and the ringmaster was
confused He finally had to tell her
that all women were barred out, and
when she persisted couple of en-
ployes led her back TO her seat She
came back flushed and angry, and
when l attempted to console her she
said:
That's the way of il all over-the
wimin folks hain't got no rights and
can't git 'em. / could hev rid that
mewl to his grave and not bin throwed
off, and that's what they was afraid If.
Ar thar any camp bells with this
show?"
you mean camels. Yes, there are
four or five in the other tent"
"Then III ride a campbell and be-
hanged TO 'em. ] hain't goin' hum
without doin' sunthin' to brag of. !"
She slipped away, and when we filed
out after the performance she was sit
ting between the two humps OF half
asleep dromedary and saying to the
man who wanted her to come off:
You go to ballyhackl Icum to this
sarcus to git pinter or two. and if yo'
git me off-n this campbell I'll ride yer
ole rhinoceros around till he draps
deadl"-Detroit Free Press.