A PAIR OF ADVENTURERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 460, 3 February 1882, Page 5

A PAIR OF ADVENTURERS.

A TBABago, while a circus was exhibiting in Little Bock, Ark., an old farmer named Wallace, with his wife, a son and daughter, travelled from Searsy county, more than a hundred miles, to see the show. The girl was seventeen years old and the boy only fifteen, and they became so fascinated with the glittering tinsel of the performers that they plotted together to run away and join the circus. The girl fearing her sex would interfere with her securing employment, donned a shabby suit belonging to her brother, and the show went South, taking "them both along. The aged parents, distracted with grief returned to their desolate home after searching in vain for several days. On Saturday the runaways reached Little Bock, having experienced hardships enough to last them for tbe remainder of their lives. They were hired at 2dols. per week, and took part in the concerts that followed the regular circus. They travelled through the greater part of Texas, the glitter and tinsel of the business fading away at every step. Finally, when at Galveaton, the manager grew weary of them and set them adrift. They were thus left without a friend and only 5 dols. in money. This was ia December last. The girl had kept the secret of her sex so well that uo one except her brother took her to be other than a comely youtb. They shipped on a brig at Galveston bound to New Orleans, but were treated so badly that they ran away on reaching the latter city, forfeiting their wages. The boy was taken sick, and their situation wag indeed critical, when the girl encountered a Sister of Charity, to whom she told her story. The Sister proved a Good Samaritan, and removing the sick boy to a charitable institution, where he was nursed backed to health, she provided the girl with female garments, and enlisted a wealthy lady of New Orleans, who furnished them with a comfortable outfit and funds sufficient to carry them home. They left Little Hock for tha old home amid the mountains, where their parents are, no doubt, grieving over their disappearance, and where they will be welcomed as having risen from the dead. — American Paper.