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Jeffersonian simplicity is preached; extravagance is practised. As the New York showman long since shrewdly observed: "The American people love to be fooled!" But I must pass on; I still have far to go. As respects legislation, I have said that sixty years ago, when my memories begin, the American ideal was the individual, and individuality.
"We'll see about that." "Quit your music; we want to go to sleep," growled a showman surlily. The brakeman put down his lantern and seated himself on the side of the flat car. He did not propose to leave the boy until he had seen him safely off the train. "How'd you get wet?" questioned Tucker's captor. "Some fellows ducked me."
"Array'd in order o' merit," said he, pointing with his mop like a showman to the line of figures before him. We drew near. "This here is Matt. Soames, master o' this vessel an' he's dead." "Dead?" "Dead-drunk, that is. O the gifted man! Come up!" He thrust the mop in the fellow's heavy face. "There now! Did he move, did he wink? 'No, says you. O an accomplished drunkard!"
It was their first meeting, and this is Barnum's own account of the interview: " 'Is it possible you are Barnum? exclaimed the Commodore, in surprise, 'why, I expected to see a monster, part lion, part elephant, and a mixture of rhinoceros and tiger! Is it possible, he continued, 'that you are the showman who has made so much noise in the world?
This, however, made it only the more home-like to its present owner, who felt exceedingly rich and respectable as he surveyed his premises; almost like a retired showman who still fondly remembers past successes, though now happy in the more private walks of life.
The fortune-teller, after predicting a destiny which time seems loath to make good, put up his cards, secreted his treasure-bag, and began to converse with the other occupants of the wagon. "Well, old friend," said the showman, "you have not yet told us which way your face is turned this afternoon."
“Showman!” roared the Baron, thinking he had discovered a jest. “Ha, ha, ha! Goot, zehr goot!” The other looked a trifle astonished for an instant, and then as he sipped his champagne an expression of intense satisfaction came over his face. “I can put away my lantern,” he said to himself,—“I have found him.” “May I have the boldness to ask your name, sir?” he asked aloud.
"Yes, sir," and Dave handed the showman the paper in question. "All right, I'll just go to the library and sign it." "Dave," whispered Hiram in a triumphant chuckle, as Colonel Lyon left the room. "Great!" Dave returned a pleased smile. He suppressed partly the great satisfaction he felt.
But I reflected that as the showman makes up on the swings what he loses on the roundabouts, so I made up on the filthy water what I lost on the cigars. How I provided myself with excellent corona-coronas in Royat, under the Paris price, I presume, of ten francs apiece, wild reporters will never drag out of me.
'If you mean cuffing its young one for playing exactly the same tricks as itself. 'Exactly; and what would be the effect of letting it and its young one loose in a great scholar's study? 'There wouldn't be much study left. 'And would it be for his good? 'Really, Mr. Showman, you ask very odd questions.
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