The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-05

Circassian lady for nothing as a re.
ward. They threw a ball at the Span
lard, and Alden. who was very
straight shot, hit Weyler so many
times that the proprietor of the game
gave him 10 cents to go away. Then
they stood and jeered at the poor pitch
ing of the majority of the fellows who
came up to have a try at the unpopular
I mead When they tired of that they
tshed in a waterless pool, containing
I reviewers, rings, sleeve-buttons and
/ pocket-kniVes. Sim paid 10 cents and
hshed up knife that was marked in
raised letters, Five cents knife" and
Alden fished up shirt stud for the
same sum, a piece of jewelry worth
/ possibly twelfth of a cent Then they
! bought squawkers and made life hid
eous for nervous people.
One pleasant-looking old gentleman
patted Alden on the head and said:
Wen, now, I know the fairs begun
when hear them. Don't blow too
hard or ven bust EN-"
on, oystersr' yelled Sim, and made
a dart for the booth where they We're
sold.
Huh, we have oysters every week -
said Alden. But that did not deter Sim
from eating twenty-four.
Say, l should think that mans voice
would get tired" said Alden. They
were standing in front of a man who
mad been selling whips at the top of
ms lungs ever since the fair opened
Here's whip fer yer horse with a
dollar'n half anywhere. 1 sell it fer
one dollar an no questions asst. B'gosh,
III throw in another fer luck. An
here ware, whip fer yer little boy.
Bring him 'raOund every time. An ter
show my good will, here's a whip, jest
the thing ter drive the muskitties aout-
er the cubbud in the spring Hear
haoW she sings. Wheeoo, Wheeooi
Nheeoo, An one dollar takes the hull
lot m Shamed ter sell EN- so cheap.
Hope no one heerd me-
Ell we was so def that we couldn't
hear you, said a farmer, "ye'C make
more money selling ear trumpeJs than
whips"
If I had a dollar. I'd buy those for
father" said Sim. Il bet he could sell
EN- for dollar each. He's the great
est man to sell things you ever saw.
He went out with the Betty horse and
rig one day TO go To Waterbury. and
he walked home in the evening with
pocket full of money. He'd sold the
morse and wagon on the road
When I grow up I'm going to do
that way said Alden. There's a
story l read about a boy that went out
with his mothers COW and sWaDped il
for less an less until ne finally came
home with an egg. Ever hear anything
SO green? I'd have begun with the egg
and gone up to the cow
SO would father Oh, there's the
merry-go-round. Let's have a rider
And so the day passed. They saw all
sights, ate enough candy to make them
SICK, made sickness certain by eating
irankfurter sausage. and weren't sick
after all. saw the balloon ascension and
chased the balloon mile away through
swamps and brooks and over barbed
WIRE FENCES, forgot to feed the horse !
and forgot the lunch that Mrs. Mer- |
ram had put up for them, and alto |
gether had quite the best time of their |
lives. Alden snapped his studs for a |
squaWker 10 the great admiration of |
Sim, who proclaimed him born |
snapper They lost each other sew
eral times and never once saw Sims |
rather. but toward the close of the !
day Sim ran across his Uncle Zenas
and was invited to come and spend
the night Alden was asked too, but
ne sad with conscious pride, mo,
We got to drive Jim home''