News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-07-21
CHAPTER X.
Retiring From the Show Business.

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- Roderick Magsworth Bits, il
SO did Herman and Verman
Roddy's staggering lie had changed
the face of things utterly. No one
questioned it; no one realized that il
was much too good to be true.
"Roddy," said Penrod in a voice
tremulous with hope, "Roddy, will you
join our show"
Roddy Joined.
Even he could see that the offer i'm.
piled his being starred as the para
mount attraction of new order of
things. 1t was obvious that he had
swelled out suddenly, in the estimation
of the other boys, to that Importance
which he had been taught to believe
his native gift and natural right. The
sensation was pleasant. He had often
been treated with effusion by grownup
callers and by acquaintances of his
mother and sisters. He had heard la
dies speak of him as charming" and
that delightful child" and little girls
had sometimes shown him Difference,
but until this moment no boy had ever
allowed him for one moment to pre-
sumo even to equality. Now, in trice
he was not only admitted to comrade-
ship, but patiently valued as something
rare and sacred, to be acclaimed and
pedestaled. In fact, the very first
thing that Schofield & Williams did
was to find a box for him to stand
upon.
The misgivings reused in Rodericks
bosom by the subsequent activities of
the firm were not bothersome enough
to make him forego his prominence as
Exhibit \. He was not a ''quick
minded boy, and it was long and
much happened before he thoroughly
comprehended the causes of his new
celebrity. He had shadowy feeling
that if the affair came to be heard of
at home it might not be liked, but, in
toXicated by the glamour and hustle
made no protest. On the contrary, he
entered whole heartedly into the prep
for the new show. Assuming,
with Sans assistance, blue mustache
and ''sideburns," he helped in the
painting of q new poster which, sup
planting the old one on the wall of the
stable facing the cross street, screamed
bloody murder at the passers in that
rather populous thoroughfare:
SCHoFiELD & WILLIAMS
NEW BIG SHOW
MAGSWoRTH BITS Jk
ONLY LIVING NEPHEW
OF
RENA MAGSWORTH
THE FAMOS
MUDERESS GOING To BE HUNG
NEXT JULY killed EIGHT PEG
PIE
PUT ARSiNECK in THEIR MILK
ALSO
SHERMAN HERMAN AND VERMAN
THE MICHIGAN RATS DOG PART
DUKE THE GENUINE
Indian DOG ADMISSION 1 CENT OR
20 PINS SAME AS BEFORE Do Not
Miss THIS CHANSE TO SEE ROD
ONLY LIVING NEPHEW of RENA
THE GREAT FAMOS
MUDERESS
GOING To BE
HUNG
Megaphones were constructed out OF
heavy wrapping paper, and Penrod,
sam and Herman set out in different
delivering vocally the in
proclamation of the poster
o a large section of the residential
quarter and leaving Roderick Mays
worth Bits, Jr., with Verman in the
oft, shielded from all deadhead eyes.
Upon the return of the heralds the
Schofield & Williams military band
played deafeningly, and an awakened |
public once more thronged to fill the !
,offers of the firm.
Prosperity smiled again. The very |
lrst audience after the acquisition of (
2oderick was larger than the largest |
f the morning. Master Bits, the only |
xhibit placed upon box, was a super
uric. All eyes fastened upon him and |
hungrily feasting, through /
ut Periods luminous Grafton.
But the glory of one light must ever
e the dimming of another. We dwell
. a vale of seesaws, and cobwebs spin