WHY HE DIDN’T GO TO THE CIRCUS.
“I say, John, did ye see the circus?” yelled a little boy to another last evening. “ No-o-o, I didn’t see the circus ! ” sneeringly said John, who had been kept in the house for disobedience. “Humph! Ought to been there ; biggest show you ever seed, elefant and carmels and boa contwisters and—everything. If I couldn’t go to a circus I’d run away.” “ Who wants to go to zer old circus,” yelled John. “I had a circus all to myself. Tied the milk pitcher to the cat’s tail, and the cat knocked down two flower pots, and smashed the pitcher, and broke a pane of glass. Git away wid your old _ circuses, been to more’n four hundred, an’ didn’t have so much fun ; an’ didn’t get licked nuther,” and the boy who had been to the circus felt as if he’d got hold of the caster oil bottle by mistake.—“ Oil City Derrick.”
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1721, 26 August 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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