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Show i The Biggest Show. For about an hour Aunt Mlrandy's three dusky offspring had been "pestering" "pes-tering" her to take them to the circus. cir-cus. The big tents had just been pitched three or four blocks away, and there was great excitement in the neighborhood. "Now, you all go on away," commanded com-manded Aunt Mlrandy. "I gotta work to buy yo' grub an' yo' clo's. I ain't got no time to take yo' novvheres." "Den ask pappy to take us," pleaded plead-ed one of the youngsters. "Huh ! Yo' pa ain't got no intrus' in no circus a-tall, a-tall. sNo, suh !" Then, after n pause, she added contemptuously: con-temptuously: "He ain't got de slightes' ambition for no circus since he done had be delirious trembles." New York Globe. |