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"Hullo, there's that handbill man now," cried Tom, as Giles Frozzler came into the tent. "Won't he laugh when he sees how Sam and Fred have been stuck?" Two of the circus employees were near by and from their talk Fred learned that the showbill man was the proprietor of the circus.
How the commercial spirit of the age plays whaley with the romance of existence! You shall not look long upon the showbill now that there is no money to be had from it. "Youth's sweet-scented manuscript" is about to close, but ere it does, let us turn back a little to the pages illuminated by the glowing colors of the circus poster.
Beneath the window is a wooden bench, on which a long succession of weary wayfarers have reposed themselves. Peeping within doors, we perceive the whitewashed walls bedecked with sundry lithographic prints and advertisements of various import, and the immense showbill of a wandering caravan. And there sits our good old toll- gatherer, glorified by the early sunbeams.
'But he is going about in good style, I can tell you. By this time I was quite awake. 'Well, what particular style does His Majesty affect this morning? He pulled out a showbill. 'Peculiarly gaudy and effective, is it not? The items announced were sufficiently attractive.
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