1 The circus would leave before night, so our show would have a pretty good chance.
2 I don't know; there may be bullier circuses than what that one was, but I never struck them yet.
3 I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent.
4 I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.
5 Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people.
6 We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus there that afternoon, and the country people was already beginning to come in, in all kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses.
7 The minute he was on, the horse begun to rip and tear and jump and cavort around, with two circus men hanging on to his bridle trying to hold him, and the drunk man hanging on to his neck, and his heels flying in the air every jump, and the whole crowd of people standing up shouting and laughing till tears rolled down.
8 And at last, sure enough, all the circus men could do, the horse broke loose, and away he went like the very nation, round and round the ring, with that sot laying down on him and hanging to his neck, with first one leg hanging most to the ground on one side, and then t'other one on t'other side, and the people just crazy.