The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-06

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trimmed founce of the material
A week before the Fourth of July
Club Little sold a pig. The price was
$40 and as the pig had only cost him
a dollar and it had been fed by his
/ father without charge Club had rea-
son for feeling that he was something
/ of a fnancier. But Club needed the
| there was great excitement in the neigh
| borhood about new merry-go-round,
! bigger and grander than anything that
/ had ever been seen before, which was
at Bilkinses grove. It was not the old
/ fashioned merry-go-round. run py horse
power. but one of the new carousels,
gOrgeOusly cOlored with an engine at
an orcheStriOn. The patrons could take
their choice of sitting in luxurious chart
OTIS or riding the animals of which there
| were all the most interesting varieties
that went into Noah's ark.
Club Little on the morning of the
Fourth in his new suit''-a suit was
always new as long as it was his
| best-and with $40 in his pocket was
alive. Clubs new suit was a winter
suit of heavy mixed brown stuff, but
! he didn't know anything different. In
Clubs set nobody had more than one
7
4 winter until it was outgrown when II
passed to a young brother. Club was
/ in no danger of freezing TO death Tor
he wore both coat and vest" his an
ruaI collar and nechtie. and heavy new
shoes, although ordinarily he ran
about in two garments. a hickory shirt
and overalls. But he had $40 in his
pocket and he was deliriously happy.
Grove to whom $50 was not a large
sum, and to Club, who had never had
more than dollar for the Fourth be-
/ fore, ii was stupendous- He estimated
that he could get on the merry-go-round
| as soon as he reached the grove, take
his two little brothers with him and
They could ride all day, the envy and
admiration of other gaWping boys AMI
and who, to prolOng the delight would
get off between rides and take a kind
Of vicarious joy in merely watching
the wonder and listening to the tunes
| it played. Even after he had ridden all
day Club expected to have money left
to buy peanuts and ice cream and soda
pop.
It cost ten cents to ride on the ca
Eousel instead OF fiye cents as the Old oid.
had been and would you believe. until
you had figured it up. that there are
| only 200 mefry-go-round rides in a
$50 bill. Club rode and rode and his
little brothers rode with him, and they
| were as they had pictured it, the
envy and despair of all the other girls
and boys. But after a while Club saw
/ that his money was being dissipated
Ike mist before the sun Tor similar ex-
lpression) and the day still far from old
Finally he realized that something
must be done, that he must curb, re-
duce expenses. and conserve his CAPT
tai so he drove his two little bothers
of Relieved by his retrenchments, ne
rode on, sometimes the only passenger
on the carouseI, for everybody was get
4 rafT a--aT
splendor, first in a chariot, then on
! gaudy giraffe.
| The other boys and girls, who had
spent all their Fourth money, had by
now tired of looking on at his ENJOY
ment and had gone away to watch the
| cane-yot d-tfle-cane-you get
man. so that when Club, with sick
ening thud Of his spirits, turned over
his last dime and craWled down on the
| merry-gO-rOund, now, to his magma
ton a huge flying monster with InSat1-
able nav which swallowed up dimes as
ogres did children, there was no one
/ to witness his humiliation and shame
| except the man Who took the uckehS
and a few fat old ladies doing on the
| benches, the palm leaf fans with which
they had been fighting the hies falling
/ to the ground at their feet Chuo
nsct1ed ND his way carefully among
| them in his squeaking new shoes and
| trying to assume an air OF cheerful
sangfroid, joined group around the
ice cream stand He mad no money u
/ buv ice cream and il looked appetizing
enough but when his Sunday school
teacher who was treating some OF her
class, urged him to Join them, pride
or misery or some other lnexpncaole
emotion brought lump to his throat
and he shook his head in dumb re-
fusaL The rest Of the afternoon he
| spent wandering wretchedly around
with no heart to join in the simple
pleasures of the others to whose hum
4 BILE level he had now descended ou'
/ who. never having known glory, were
eontented with their poverty and OBJ
/ scurity. Still he couldn't bear to look
at the carousel. the scene Of his tr1-
| nr10F and the cause Of his downfall
end the tunes IL played. which earlier
| IN the day had carried a sense OF roE
| Trking inspiration now had poignant
note Of tragedy. ike the cry of lost
souls
Going home in the wagon after th'
fireworks that night, the other children
LEANED YEARLY on one another's shout
Iders and dozed. but Club was wide