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Mr Bardlock joined in the laugh against himself, and proceeded with his

wife to some seats, forty or fifty feet distant When he had settled

himself comfortably, he shouted over cheerfully to the unhappy editor:

"Theot it in fer you, Mr Harkless"

"Ain't that fool shet up yit?" snarled the aged Mr Bodeffer,

indignantly He was sitting near the young couple, and the expression of

his sympathy was distinctly audible to the calf-disturbin' a feller with his sweetheart!"

"The both of 'eoin' to do fer you," bleated Mr Bardlock

"Swear they'll git their evens with ye"

Mr Martin rose again "Don't git scared and leave town, Mr Harkless," he

called out; "Ji an to play, and the

equestrians and equestriennes capered out fro-tent for the

"Grand Entrance," and the perfor summer

afternoon it went on: wonders of horse exploits on wires, tight and slack; giddy tricks on the high

trapeze; feats of leaping and tus; while the tireless

long enough to

allow that uproarious jester, the clown, to ask the ring- lady came up and kissed hi the short intervals of rest for the