THE CIRCUS.
•"I ear, John, did y° u see tne cirous ?M? M yelled 4 little boy to another one evening. "No-o-o-o. I didn't see the circus!" sneeringly said John, who had been kept in the house for disobedience. "Humph! You ought to have fcoen there; biggest show you ever seed, elephant and carmel and boa eontwisters and— and everything! If I couldu't go to the circus 1 d run away." "Who wants to go to yer old circus," yolled John. "I bad a circus all to myself. Tied the milkcan to the cat's tail, and the cat knocked down two flower-pots, and smashed the cucumber frame, and broke a pane of glass in the diningroom window. Git away wid yer old circus. Been to more'n four hundred and didn't have bo much fun ; and didn't get licked nuther " ; and the boy who had been to the circua felt as if he had got hold of the castor oil bottle by mistake. The national monument to the Empei or WUliam of Germauy is to oost £400,000.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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176THE CIRCUS. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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