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This infallible fluid, handed down for generations in the family of my ancestor, the High Priest of Isis " The bray of a neighbouring show-man's trumpet cut him short, and yielding to circumstances he drew back the curtain, and a tumbling-girl sprang out and began her antics on the front of the stage.
Cows lowing, sheep bleating, pigs grunting, horses neighing, men shouting, women screaming, fiddlers playing, pipes squeeling, youngsters, dancing, hammering up of standings and tents, thumping of restive or lazy animals, the show-man's drum, the lottery-man's speech, the ballad-singer's squall, all come upon us; and lastly, the unheeded sweep of the death-bell, as it tells with sullen tongues that some poor mortal has for ever departed from the cares and amusements, the trade and traffic, of this transitory life.
"Fred Dill up an' said, 'The man that buys 'im will be the sucker, an' everybody laffed, Alf as big as the rest. "'I think I know whar I could sell his hide, he said, an' bid ten dollars. Then somebody or it may jest have been the show-man's bluff raised it to fourteen, an' then Alf went 'im a dollar more an' got the hoss." "Another one to feed and doctor," sighed Mrs. Henley.
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