Show TOOK JOHNNIE TO THE SHOW in everywhere tor for may poor little johnnie longed to go and see the show like any simple trusting lad who viewed the walls in pictures clad of men who lived on horses backs or climbed each oth others ers heads in stacks ur or drivelled drivel led dressed in stripes and spots or tied themselves in double knots or metamorphosed into wheels or swung each other by the heels or placid led unblemished lives amid a fusillade of knives or punched the lion while he roared or with their heads beads his mouth explored you would yourself elf have long longed d to go ana see the show then johnnies John father said although I 1 loathe loath abhor and hate the show I 1 feel that t little john should go the curloss animals to see atwould never do so little grown for him to wander round alone my little boy shall go with me A 1 d johnn els mother prudent dame A and n d johnnies auntie felt the same bud and johnniea John ancle lemuel his second cousin samuel hamuel H is older sister mary and susan busan ann and sarah his brother and his brother in law his fataei ta theis a cautious mother in law and others went along with him to see that nought was wrong with him not a sin to take you know poor johnnie to the show I 1 As any one might be afraid very hard with all this aid for little liitle john to see the show they hustled bustled him they bostl ed him they pulled him to an and d fro when one of them would chance to see A knot of friends then he or she would grasp the urchin by the hand so be all the world would understand that they had bad simply come you know with johnnie to the show and johnnies heart was breaking hi his lengthened arms were aching hi his pulse was wildly throbbing his little breath was sobbing when with a new and different ache in every separate toe he lay at night in his A dreary poor and lonely one and murmured im the only one of all the family small or large that see the show I 1 WILL |