n moved and the old building
is to be tore down. He hired the place cheap. And he goes and talks the
gas company into giving him credit to fill that balloon. Which I kept
wondering what was the use of filling her, fur none of the four of
us had ever went up in one. And when I seen the handbills he had had
printed I wondered all the more. They read as follers:

Kirby's Komedy Kompany and Open Air Circus

Presenting a Peerless Personnel of Artistic Attractions

Greatest in the Galaxy of Gaiety, is

Hartley L. Kirby

Monologuist and minstrel, dancer and vaudevillian in his terpsichorean
travesties, buoyant burlesques, inimitable imitations, screaming
impersonations, refined comedy sketches and popular song hits of the
day.

The Blanchet Brothers

Daring, Dazzling, Danger-Loving, Death-Defying Demons

Joyous jugglers, acrobatic artists, constrictorial contortionists,
exquisite equilibrists, in their marvellous, mysterious, unparalleled
performances.

Umslopogus The Patagonian Chieftain

The lowest type of human intellect

This formerly ferocious fiend has so far succumbed to the softer wiles
of civilization that he is no longer a cannibal, and it is now safe to
put him on exhibition. But to prevent accidents he is heavily manacled,
and the public is warned not to come too near.

Balloon! Balloon!! Balloon!!!

The management also presents the balloon of

Prof. Alonzo Ackerman The Famous Aeronaut

in which he has made his

Wonderful Ascension and Parachute Drop

many times, reaching remarkable altitudes

Balloon! Balloon!! Balloon!!!

Saturday, 3 P. M. Old Vandegrift School Lot

Admission 50 Cents

Well, fur a writer he certainly laid over Looey, Doctor Kirby did--more
cheerful-like, you might say. I seen right off I was to be the
Patagonian Chieftain. I was getting more and more of an actor right
along--first an Injun, then a wild Borneo, and now a Patagonian.

"But who is this Alonzo Ackerman?" I asts him.

"Celebrated balloonist," says he, "and the man that invented parachutes.
They eat out of his hand."

"Where is he?" asts I.

"How should I know?" he says.

"How is he going up, then?" I asts.

The doctor chuckles and says it is a good bill, a better bill than he
thought; that it is getting in its work already. He says to me to read
it careful and see if it says Alonzo Ackerman is going up. Well, it
don't. But any one would of th