Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-10-02

cannot Jndcrstand-But the youthful
listener Obtains Definitions
veteran circus man wandered into the
tent Of one of the great and only" COM
binaticns which appeared in Rochester not
long ago. and as a rehearsal was in prop-
rnss bc er+nrod into ~, o,s,, co,,,.orsa+ia,,
with siicb nf the ,,orfor,nera ne had tin,o f.,
converse
"Of course Won savd,,st bonnors bovo
moro room to dress in ;, no ro,,,arl,od
"tbnn we had i'm tbe old dave md ,,o,,
have better Iirbts ard nll that remain.
her one nipht at T,ogansport when +be
liphts MI won't ont when the show ,vns
half over. and we had to dress in tbe dorl-
Some ono had mt winter i'm the coil oil and
stolen all the candles And tho crowd
roared and there we're n lot of flpbts and
if was a moonlioht NIGHT and the hoss
souonzo bnd tbnm rim off tLo hood nnd
they finished the nerfor,nonce Inv moon.
LIGHT But If left n had nomc for all tho
rrafters' and guns were So busv tbnv
couldn t. tell whether tbe,- wore +oncbins,
Jaws or people that belonped with tho
show. -
"Mnde good money then. didn' II vougu
asked the eouilibrist.
eyes. rood money. was n wise man
then-worked hard all the time for good
wares and never had a cont There wasn't
half n dozen men i'm the hiisfness who could
turn n double. OF course there vvere lots
of hair rrabbers. but I p1less 7 was as good
as any of them. had n side martinez one
season His name was VIM. and he was
a candy butcher He worked that for a
blind. but he was n short change man on
the regular. More than once they told him
he'd better duck. but he Thought he was
next. and he didn' + nav any attention Ho
got so careless | quit him, and then he
took IN with n new man as we came into
Columbus. and a Joey bov' was coming
into the tent with a broad in his hand.
and the new man Thought he was n rem
ben and he touched him for his roll and
the Joey didn't get over kicking till his
leg was ont of Joint"
"Couldn't he oct his soft back again9,'
asked one of his hearers.
mo. We didn't have any sollic.i and
the hxer had arranged so that all the off
GERS i'm Columbus should 20 to slccp and
stay there till the show rot ont of the town
He did his worl, too well TO suit the ioev.
But it made SO much trouble that we never
saw that oun auain till we struck Wheel
ing in return trip in the fall And then
he was "A side show blower. with double
ey.
"There was where we lost ePeacbv. -
continued the old circus man after n pause
He was the making of the greatest of all
hair grabbers. [ think. He made I'M with
a tart the wife of one of the suanglers-
she did the snake act i'm one of the side
tops-and they stoned with the Dlur.
next season | made n killing Mt faro
out west and was CAV as a bird of paradise
when we came to Hannibal was snol,-
ing . cent pnnks-and they were punks
for that money in those DAYS, I tell YOU
And had a silk smush. with gold handle
and steel ribs-paid - for it at St Joe
and hid it under box that nipht at Han
nibal, and some enc reached it and copied
it while | was huntingmv rozin. Icouldn' t
chase him, but the dame that sews the cos
TUNES did, and he stepped in a grummet
where the menageric top had been all dav
and sprained his ankle. The .mush' was
broken when she BROUGHT if back. but she
told me his 'glimmers' were as black as
his top piece. But bIowed myself all the
way M TO Indenendencc. and Inv the tine
we got there / had to hook NV spark.
Good timesr' And he chucklcd eniovablv,
Funny thing, . said one of the ncrobats,
Gle brings IN the old style show so nlain-
ly l can see it again as it was when | was
bow"
"And many wear before. " interiected
the ringmaster.
Eyes, many wear before. remember
once in the old DAYS the LAYER out went
ahead and rallied the road ont of Niles and
some kids took M all the sticks. and when
our wagon came along we had to hunt for
the elephant tracks. 1t was raining. and
we couldn't find anything, and we got
lost.
miles" said a Younger performer re-
fiectiyely. "There's where we had n kicker
from Kicl5erville He had washed his
pumps in the hotel and hung them rp
there to dry. He and his wife did double
act on the horses and he called across to
her in the dressing rooms and asked her
where his pumps were. and she told him
she had forgotten to bring them and he
ripped ont an oath and cursed tbe manage