| Show A SUNDAY CIRCUS going to camp meeting A missionary the incident inc dent 1 am about to relate has been kepi ane public ear now aa me joke was considered atu st too to at the inua of its occurrence but dokea like become lighter with age po iii now to the public for the liht time toe medium of and although the details luay appear a antle exaggerated buu that vw no participated as a s is cus y legara cd uneit through the spectacles ot personal bo and troubles appear greater to who endure thau to who simple listen to a nan huou ot the of other people antl as it 13 a salve to oui soiro vvs to excite sympathy in our friends I 1 tavo spared no paine in extending aliu following account to its full bourn aay of detail but I 1 trust the truth of me doiy wal at least be recognized by the participants in the that hey will pardon all and in my aai jadian it it it occurred in the summer of 1880 and may therefore tae be considered somewhat foi a story but as it happened in where in damp seasons the chilly climate ab ot winter all ane year round perhaps the reia tion of atiat was rather a funny although an unfortunate affair to v lu not be out 0 order now the of the no conference was by an ichu eucial to bome and bangers to a village called tag hill and U was promised that a field would be provided for a camp meeting at 10 in the morn aig and 2 in tte and dinner tea and what wat equally good congregations were guaranteed tue following was selected as the day and set about making the necessary preparations for conveying two choirs to ane camping ground one was iram and the other from nottingham now this was no small matter fop the loriney was considerable by railway which did not go deiy near to the place and no hyta ces ever being specified in com luon english parlance the trip was called in provincial an alf a crown now conference presidents there are frequently chosen tor very good reasons something ake our bishops aie here more for executive and financial ability than their oratorical powers but our president was with both and it was found to be a fortunate policy in this instance for the duty of trap orling a good sized company of saints across this continent with their fate paid is aa absolute sinecure compared with taking fifty persons without from one village to an in britain but our executive officer was equal to it lie arranged that the people should borrow from their neighbors such vehicles as could be obtained and when fecca friendly neighbors were sot possessed of horses ahe propelling power had 10 be obtained now to own a horse among the poorer classes in england is about as fanciful an idea as to own an elephant in america so you anay ilaine the fantastic combinations concocted upon this ingenious clan A stalwart basso profunda pro fundo toai liu from hucknall with his sleek fat wife who sang seconds were mounted on the scat ot uch a two wheeled cart as is used in that country in the barnyard the tire was inches in width but in probably proba oly two 0 the thickness excellent proportion as o aud to the wheel itself as was alan the hub for toe englishman al ways builds his wagons as he abes his houses to last a hundred years so atie hub ot such a cart would resemble ia size and I 1 was going ta say iu texture too a large homemade home made cheese of american manufacture the shafts would weigh about seventy avoirdupois and were as pounds stiff and as strong as a pole fence and lucky that chev for between them cantered bercy and capered a alley of playful and capricious been temper never having hitched in such a manner before he would try like a boy just from college firewood fire wood to who was asked to chop his utter disgust of the supposed but in addition to this degradation not in the of these vehicles were conae biest of running order and the borrower used them at his own risk so it was at rheu a nothing to be surprised wheel rolled off precipitating ponderous musical contents of the cart the and threatening with into a side hedge any unfortunate destruction n hn be struck by the flying linlau tiny of ibe demoralized conveyance be the wheel would and onward wheelwright without a the duett to Us destination sped of our commanding but the coup in making his arrangements officer to the transportation supply leg in was to anis nottingham people from wing of the undertaking I 1 having bacu selected for attached was of the one material as better of want of the day by his request I 1 accompanied preachers the president to a livery much native where he exercised combined anih an active eloquence in lauree trading tra dinK in convincing experience abe lockey ip that we dollar buu fora hav reluctantly avus pound raised to a guinea tw nry one bargain at and the shillings lavoia bk tig but that binius says baat a man ss bosn hell about and ia his price down and it proved in this case it so earn of kius instance more 2 never saw cut diamond than this diamond between trader transaction iju iu i u the english jockey and darine approaches alarmed at our evidently toward the very brink of dishonesty pro aches in beating him six cent he appeared per two with abe driver on the 0 the picnic and demanded bis money in advance the vehicle was ol 01 the excursion wagon species made like a street car for six on a side into which you could crowd but it was unlike that commodious vehicle in other respects now the salt lake street car while made for say fourteen can by passengers standing up iu front sardi in the middle and banging on behind be made to hold from twenty four to forty bat this wagon was of such narrow proportions and so springy a nature in its gearing that we almost startled both jehu and jockey when we showed up twenty onebia and little as the contemplated occupants of the vehicle on hand however this crowding and squeezing to get hour moneys worth as some of those expressed it who donated for the expenses the fellow got the best of us at last he had cajoled us into the senseless idea that we bad been furnished a good team he called them a pair of fine and to the casual observer the grooms having hitched the fattest one on the near side the team was passable in ance and therefore more deceptive we suon discovered however how deeply this scoundrel had laid his plans for our overthrow we drove off all in joyful spirits except the driver himself and it was apparent that something was troubling his mind he handled his whip in a very cautious manner and tried more by persuasive pleadings than by words of command to urge the sluggish steeds from the environs of the city the further we went the gioi e nervous he became until his addresses to the nigh horse in particular were more in the nature of an appeal from a henpecked to a petulant wife than the rani of a city coachman to a sair of lazy horses la fact oui gait ad dwindled down almost to the pace of the long eared jack rabbits that hustle our street cars up to the twenty first ward when we reached the foot bl a little hill and a mixture of nervous and encouraging cackles from the frightened driver showed us that something was wrong with the ane under bis coa arol the ladies screamed the gentlemen dismounted by the safest route from behind and a general outburst of declamatory epithets spouted forth from twenty one musical and oratorical mouths in wonderful time and concord while some their walking canes to bear on abe bones of the animals the voice of the driver was listened to with emotion however as he urged model aaion which seemed quite timely and certainly appropriate tor said he the sorrel un bibs jibs balks and the black kicks and we shall be bad hoff if as ow something gives way in the agnesi ar nesi by this time the well packed company of passengers had left the vehicle and were scattered at respectful distances from the outfit as though an explosion of dynamite were likely to follow the oracular announcement of the man on the box some of us who have seen baliv horses before and behind too walked up and look the wi etches by the bits aud chiy finding that the load bad lessened took the opportunity to skip uy the incline and were brought to a halt with effort and gesticulation by the driver until the passengers caught up and re mounted the concern but our troubles tro ables were by no means at an end for hill after hill witnessed the recurrence of refractory antics it would have been impossible to at all conjecture before stalling the variety of quaint those two anti corn cribs could evolve from their stiff legged and uncongenial carcasses jno actor in klalo clothes everdon cealey his character better or astonished his audience more vividly than this pair of tine at that sab coining circus they carried aut the drivers pro gramme precisely they kicked and bibbed jibbed and they also danced and capered and cut up in a manner not specified in the contract balanced to one another with their noses together waltzed over the traces tried to stand on heads and on their tails at the same time and finally wound up the monkey performance by getting the tongue between the hind legs of the near horse and the foie legs of the hoff un as he was callad by the softhearted sitter on the driving seat at this janc tuie something gave way in the arness arn adf ho had foreshadower foreshadowed fore shadowed and all the talent of the company and fortunately we had a shoemaker s along was required to itch the tackle and get underway again thus these playful specimens of equine domesticity whiled away the the sun had reached its mer hidden behind the lowering clouds of a threatening eky but we beached leached our destination though late in per safety enjoyed the excellent fare provided for us by the kind people ot beanor heanor preached to a large congregation in the field at 2 p IB aud owing to the storm a theater was us in the evening in which we sang hymn sand preached the gospel to another labre congregation with as much joy as though our episode of the morning had never taken place I 1 was invited to stay all night with a family that desired to invests aate 0 o I 1 escaped ahe trials of the oa reward trip abic i belated our fr ends I 1 afterwards learned till nearly the conference aeu t now wields the scepter of municipal authority in a city of some pretensions I 1 was after the incident related called to an editorial seat in the millennial atar office and my fellow prea cow was of the london conference the choirs have almost universally immigrated to utah and are doubtless in the affluence they deserve whether the wheel of re tribu Uon that so judth rewarded ns dealt out well to the jockey and his pah of fine by burning them to death I 1 am not prepared to say but we who witnessed the catastrophe desoi bcd above often smile in eur sli eves at te way we got a cheap ride and the way we paid for of english jockey W |
