The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-02

allAN NllAs
One Of the girls left the group-I
could see that ia the finder, but 4
snapped hastily ana then looked up.
II was the beauty.
have the other two. They are un-
developed.
In the Claddagh a pretty little child /
came up to me and asked me TO take
her piccher," hoping for some cop
pers in payment.
nodded my head to her, but bare
footed derelict ahead Of me heard her
request and, wheeling around sudden
", bade the child be off and offered to
pose for me herself
velasquez would have jumped at the
chance, but l am not Velasquez and
shook my head and hurried on.
The vehemence Of the old woman's
vituperatiye assault on the little girl
had collected a lot Of loungers Of both
sexes, and | was besleged for pictures,
the pretty little girl saying incessant-
", Il asst yau first, I asst you first,
l asst you first"
] managed to make her understand
that II she walked on far enough
would take her picture, and onlA one
1 other heard her, another little girl
pretty enough to grace film.
These two kept on, while the others
dropped away when they saw was
adamant.
And when my models were far
enough from the others to enable me
to get them before it was suspected
what was at | snapped them and put
my hand into my pocket to get up
couple Of coppers, and found nothing
but sixpence.
or course the children could not
change It and could not very well di
vide it, so | appealed to some fisher
men who we're lounging on the quay,
asking them II they could give me
coppers for sixpence.
They gave me to understand that
both coppers and sixpences were
strangers to them, and evidently felt
that. as a rich American, | could cas-
fly give each child shilling. But this
would have been to get the whole pack
. on me, for they already smelt money,
[ and were coming up to me again I
} SO | gave the sixpence 70 the one
: who had first spoken to me and told
her to keep four pence for herself and
I to give tuppence to her little friend.
: I'm afraid they came to blows over
Z it. AS for me. left the picturesque
j. Claddagh and saw 1t no more.
| 1t was that same morning that hat
e seen the entire population, lining on'
e Of the narrowest streets in that par
v Of Galway, and there / got shot afte'
! shot Of the picturesque groups
asked what they were waiting TO
r and one of the mackerel-selling am
e barefooted velasquez women told mt
i that an American circus was coming.
/ felt it was worth waiting to see a
d American circus in Galway.
a The circus was called Buff Bill
!. Wild West Show" Not Buffalo Bill
II mind you, but Buff Bill.
e For a long time | waited. and at las
q my patience was rewarded.
knew just what it would be- Their
n would be fifty or sixty cowboys o
b. their bronchos, bevy Of female sharI
shooters. and the Deadwood stage
- and. for the circus part Of It, an ell
phant or two and the $4,000 beaut
4 followed up by dens Of wild beasts al
representatives OF all the countries
a the world
= At last music was heard. The bar
i was approaching. Around a bend
= the street came the usual crowd
= small boys and girls running ahel
\ and looking backward.
Then came a yellow wagon, with
cowboy band discoursing the late
y New York favorite
- Next came one dreadful dwarf, MAJ
up as a hideous clown.
- He was literally a sickening sight.
A Behind him rode an ordinary negl
"a not. costumed in any special mann'
~ He was enough novelty as he was.
~ And beh;nd these two rode a man
the tooth powder vendor type, wi
er long hair. a boiled shirt, sombre
n and no necktie.
He was Baf Bill.
IN And that constituted the parade.
m It was worth waiting for, Il only
ic- see what It Is that constitutes a We
drous spectacle to a small boy.
to Fifty years from now some prosp
Ike GUS chicagoan will take his grands
a to see a four mile parade OF some gr'
ne circus Of the period, with half h
ied dred elephants, thousand mol
ar horsemen and scores Of gilded cha
ed OTIS; and when the small boy voi'
his rapture. the old man viii say "
ice sincerity:
lge 'Its pretty good, suppose, but }
ast ought to have seen the circus Il
no came to Galway when I was a boy
up eight. That beat any circus I've e.
be- seen since. couldn't sleep for we'
uld thinking about It."