Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-08-14
ERNEST rUTTLE.
A Prominent Citizen Of Fulton Writes
Unique Letter Regarding the
Circus at Fulton, Mo.

Tuttle, prominent citizen Of Fulton,
TO his sister-in-Iaw, Miss Hinde, well
known in this city, who is now 10 Old
Mexico, is, to say the least, unique:
To whom It may concern. wherever they be.
CRAzyTowN, MIzzoUREE, Next
DAY AFTER "cIRKis sDAy.n-All dead,
but one The sirkis has came end has
went. We'un's, with a good nanny
uthers, fit hour weigh thrue too
cessions. Fitelng, welbled CRATE drops
of holiness, dyeing, We expriuneed
varius sizes Of hexhanstions.
Time used wuz frum foreaclock
sunday mornin 10 leven oklok a mum
dy mite Seem EN- throe there things
often the keers and a rizin NV the
kanyassezez over the shoground and
er shown there paraid ON the streets
ux Crazytown mundy morning and a
goin to the too cessions a mundy after
eatin In the middle Nv the day and
after a cummin home and gltten a
drink and eatiD agin about sun
down.
The sirkis was shore sucksess,
tinanchiully alluding to it and 1t TUX
erway lots NV free silynr dollurs at
wuz maid by the Mizzonree free siivurl
dimmercrats. Sum NV these'ere dim
mercrats wux tux in two IL is alluz
the weighat all kinds Nv sho's Pus-
sunnelIy wuz TUX IN bout foretene
time. Ceven time with the after
Idinner crowd and ez menny times
again in the after supper getherin. II
WIZ shore hemmed In must NV the
time, and fore l got out was sum
tluted, and time ! did git out wuz
shore tucked good and plenty, and
ready fer the washs
Had cackerlated on sum hep, but
Elder Heart-lessness TUX tew the
wuuds airly thet mornin, and doctur
Littlepillz, he TUX TO bed a foretime
Both sho'ed wlzdum and aforethot in
there ackshun, leaven me to hold and
llukafter foreteen setts Of petticoats.
These wuz all ho maid tewand cheep,
as them what looked after the sikus
dressins wuz pade fer it.
could not see no pay in the dry
goods what wuz ON my hands all git
tin inter ther surkus on little paist-
boards what bad printin on EN- at
said 'Tet em in without mummy, they
are pore and have nit the price, we
don't cut out no dry goods frum this
show. | don't think 1t maid emmy
difference with them sho-people fer
when we got inter whur they wuz a
sholn off there dry goods, sum showed
a good many, some not so many, and
sum not hardlyenny at-'all. When
theze wuz shown their dry goods, l
wuz lookin at my knew iceland ice
plant leaf fan, trim to find little peace
Of ice :. man said when he sold me,
that il had ice on it shore, and tew I
had to look after the pile Of petit
coats which wuz left In my charge and
ltney wuz just fiyin around lookin
at dry gudds and evry thing else. Fore
we went inter the dry goods part
there wuz ennuther part where they
had ELEPHANTS, and pnuts and corn
popped, and lots Nv purity ponies, and
red lemmunaid and Karamels, and
men hollern to eat And liuns at just
roared, and EN- elephunts blowed
trumpets or played trumps, forgot
which they said, and tlgurs at just
lukked rite in the face. and they had
sum little wuns too, and hieenaes :. :.
who'ee wouldn't like to be won Of
themn less theygiye me plenty Of
Florida water, and monkeys at just
maid all kinds NV faces at you, and
jest set right up afore folks and cetch-
ed and etc them little black hoppers
off'n themselves, and "Ships at pass in
in the nite,n and all kinds NV burds
that sing in the dasime, and dears. O.
there wdz lots Nv dears, cause heard
a lot Of country boys talking about
bringing theirs to the sho, and there
wux sum dears at the sho people had
in caiges, but most Nv tile dears was
out loose cepting them that had sum-
boldly aholding to EN- by the paws,
and they was goin kinder In herds
like. And they wus sum real camp
bells and sum cambelites and sum
Calyins, see Jim and biz wife and hiz
leven childefn, and sum Calvanites, yes
onkel Henri wuz thar. And the
Wesslyns, yes they WV thar too :.
Wess he set rite across rope, frum
mex. 'Speneetrls, yes you couldn't turn
to right nor left without meeting up
with sum nv them, they wuz what
the show-folks most spected to see,
they had heard they wuz good
menny hear, and cum fer that reason
mostly. And ther wus about ate or
leven crafty men there, talked funny
crazy talk like and luked like they
might been painters and had been a
practisin on theselfs afore they got a
job paintin ehnything else. ). They
was shore good painters. And horses,
such Mise wons and such hole heap
OF them, and don't yer think won died
a gitten Of the kyars at the deepo. At
the cirkis a man lost his nife and wuz
la lokin fer it a long time ennuther
won lost his temper, so they sed and a
vumman she lost her little gal and
made more noise and an elephant a
playin his trumphet En- when they
lall went inter where the clrkis part
was at, was jist gitten along pretty
well with my pile er pettlcoats, when
the Grand march OF hosses, waggins,
lcammels, elephants and fore little
hogs a hitched up In Vaughn with a
man ridin came erlong and / got
scered and my petticOats gotskattered
land l wuz much distressed fer fear
would lose sum of the close at was
lentrusted to me to them sho peoples. :.
You orter heared me hollern fer hep,
and got all back what belonged to
me, and sum folks wuz mean ernud to
laugh cause l lost my things what I
took with me. Yer just orter hev
lMIsIslISE TRUST 5sM