LEMONADE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2002, 24 July 1880, Page 2

LEMONADE.

Just befora the circua opened yesterday afternoon a woman, accompanied by her eon. a boy about sixteen years of age, appeared on the grounds and was the first at the ticket waggon. When the window was opened the mother said to tha ticket-seller : "If you will be bo kind as to let a poor widow woman's Johnny into the circus, he will carry water'to the elephant." "Stand back, madam, stand back!" he cried as he took the half-dollars over her head. She took her boy by the hand and marched to the entrance of the big tent, explaining to the man at the door : "Sly Johnny is going to cany hay to the camels." " You and your Johnny carry yourselves right out of this !" was the very emphatic reply. " Couldn't wa both gr> in for ten cents, if we sat on the ground ?" " No, ma'am ! Stand back, now ; you are in the way." They fell back for a consultation. The boy had tears in his eyes, and his mother looked determined. " Don't cry, Johnny dear—your mother lores you and will get you in," she consolingly remarked, as she led him again to the ticket waggon. Crowding and pushing her way in, she caUed out : " This boy's father was a preacher, and you ought to lot, him in free." " Stand back, madam, stand back," was the answer she got. " Can't you lot us in for ten cents ?" "No! no!" She drew the boy out of the crowd and took a walk around the tent. There was a spot where the canvas was raised a little, and as they halted thoro she said—- " Johnny, a mother's lore can surmount every obstacle. I'll stand here and you crawl *nder the tent." She spread her skirts as far as possible, and the boy made a dive and disappeared. Ib about ten seconds he reappeared in the shape of a ball, and he didn't stop rolling until he had gone thirty feet. The mother straightened him out. lifted him up and inquired what had happened. " I-I-don't exactly know," replied the boy as he looked back at the tent, " but I guess I don't care for any more mother's love—l'll tike pink lemonade in place of it!"