The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-12-06

there been circus there 1t will b
possible for the boys VINO read this
understand the frame Of mind Lut
Caverly and myself were in.
! remember as well as II II ha
happened yesterday how Lutte cam
running into the cellar where | wa
sorting over some potatoes that ha'
begun 10 sprout.
You don't know what they ar
putting up on the side Of the old mil
down by Goose Creek" he said, as h
stood painting before me.
! was n boy who affected eXasper
ating indifference when other boys
sought 10 arouse my curiosity, and
said, quietly:
We'll, guess it isn't anything worti
working oneself into a fit Of apoplexy
over"
1T is, too"' retorted Lutte. ANY.
way, boys don't have apOpleXy. You
wouldn't guess in month OF Sundays
what il is! All the boys are wild.
And youll be when / tell you. What
would you say If | told you that there
were circus bills on the old mill?"
"They often put circus bills there
when there is to be a circus over in
Redmond"
in Redmond 1t is to be right here
in Templeton" ~.
Honest Injun;" tBt.
"Hope to die If il isn't"
"a real for-sure circus, Lutte Cav
erly?"
You'll think so when you see the
bills. They cover nearly the whole
side Of the mill, and they are putting
them up on other buildings in town!
If they have half the animals they
show on the bills, and do half the
things they promise, it will be worth
the price of admission. Joe Trlmpy
says that his brother Ed went TO this
very same circus over in Keenc two
weeks ago. and he says IL Is the best
one he ever went TO in his life. and he
has been to more than n dozen! Let's
run down 10 the mill and see che bills
You'll find most of the boys in town
there"
cussing the gorgeous posters that had
been spread over the lower part of the
mill. Nearly all the boys were talk
ing at once. and some were generously
holding up the little ones who could
not very well see over the heads of
the crowd.
II don't believe they've got three
elephants or two hippopotamusses"
Dan Ross was saying. his shrill voice
pitched several notes higher than the
voices of the other boys.
"They have, toow screamed Joe
Trimpy. MY brother Ed saw them,
He says they ere the biggest hippo
potamusses he ever saw, and he's
been TO eight Circuses and animal
shows. And they've got an orang
utan and two lady riders, just as the
bills say they have. And my brother
Ed says the clowns will make you
die alaughing. And there is n lady
jumps from trapeze and turns two
somersaults and lands on her feet in
a big net. Yes. sir! My brother Ed
saw II with his own eyes. And that
trick mule rears up just like IL does
in the bills, and they give So 10 any
one that can ride il three times around
the ring! l wouldn't miss this circus
for a S10bill"
think that every boy in Templeton
had this feeling. and know that Lutte
and / took account of our financial
condition on the way home from the
mill.
You see, we will want considerable
more than just the fifty cents Il will
cost us TO get in." said Lutte. There
will be two or three side-shows. and n
grand concert after the regular per
fCrmance Then well want to buy
some lemonade and peanuts and pom
corn and candy and maybe some cakes
of some kind to eat while the show is
going on Wen want n good dollar
and q half apiece. have thirty.six
cents now, and ten cents coming to
me from old Mrs. Thayer for wedding
out her flower beds. How much have
you got?'
"Forty-seven cents and n quarter
more If | can catch the weasel that
is killing so many oc Nancy Trents lit
tie chickens That's seventy-two
cents"
Then you have just double what
have-when you get IL. We'll have
to hustle and scare up dollar and a
half each If we want TO take in every
thing. And you know that as this is
the first circus that has ever come 20
Templeton, we ought to patronize IL
all we can so II will come again"
Nothing but the circus was talked
about in the village. The boys gath.
cred in large numbers before the bills
every day, and rs the day set for the
arrival of the circus drew near. the in.
terest and the excitement increased.
Lutte and | had hustled" as he had
said that we must, and the day before
the circus found me N the happy pos
session OF q dollar and sixty cents.
while Lutte had dollar and fifty.nve
cents.
There was no railroad In the town
OF Templeton. and the circus would
have TO come In on its own wagons
from Rosevale. railroad station
about fifteen miles away. Every boy
and some OF the girls i'm Templeton had
planned TO walk out on the Rosevale
road. and meet the circus. Some were
going to walk as far as Blue River.
which was Eve miles from Temple
ton. There was very shaky and