The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-01-24
7 HERE was 10 be q circus ln
the little town OF Tcmpleton.
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there been a circus there. 1t Will be
possible for the boys who read this to
understand the frame Of mind Lutte
Caverly and myself were I'm.
1 remember as well as If It had
happened yesterday how Lutte came
running into the cellar where was
sorting over some potatoes that had
begun to sprout
"You don't know what they are
putting up on the side Of the old mill
down by Goose Creekw he said, as ne
stood painting before me.
/ was a boy who affected exasper-
at!ng Indifference when other BOYS
sought to arouse my curiosity, and l
said, quietly:
"Well, guess 1t isn't anything worth
working oneself into a nt Of apoplexy
over"
1T is, too" retorted Lutte. "Any-
way, boys don't have apoplexy You
wouldn't guess in a month Of Sundays
what it is! All the boys are wild.
And you'll be when 1 tell you. What
would you say IL l 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"
"But this circus is not to be over
in Redmond. 1t is to be right here
in Templetonw
Honest Injun" E
"Hope to die If it isn'tr
"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 Trimpy
says that his brother Ed went to this
very same circus over in Keene two
weeks ago, and he says it is the best
one he ever went to in his life, and he
has been to more than a dozen! Let's
run down to the mill and see the bills.
You'll find most Of the boys in town
there"
Indeed there was q great crowd dis
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.
Il 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 are 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 a lady
jumps from a trapeze and turns two
somersaults and lands on her feet in
a big net. Yes, sir! My brother Ed
saw it with his own eyes. And that
trick mule rears up just like it does
in the bills, and they give S. to any
one that can ride it three times around
the ring! l wouldn't miss this circus
for a $10-billv'
think that every boy in Templeton
had this feeling, and 1 know that Lutte
and I 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 it will
cost us to get In" said Lutte "There
will be two or three side-shows, and a
grand concert after the regular per
Torrance. Then We'll want to buy
some lemonade and peanuts and pop,
corn and candy and maybe some cakes
of some kind to eat while the show is
going on. Well want a good dollar
and a half apiece. 1 have thirty-siz
cents now, and ten cents coming t.
me from old Mrs. Thayer for wedding
out her flower beds How much have
you got?"
"Forty-seven cents and a quarter
more if can catch the weasel tina
is killing so many Of Nancy Trent's lit
tie chickens That's seventy-twC
cents"
"Then you have just double what
have-when you get it. Wen hav,
to hustle and scare up a dollar and
half each If we want to take in every
thing. And you know that as this il
the first circus that has ever come {.
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