See the absurd and ridiculous promises made upon it! Why do they dare so
to humbug the people? Because, in no other way could they get people to
ride ten or twelve miles through a summer drouth to hand over their
money to the man who is anxious to get it! Here is a man in a chariot,
with tigers plunging under his rein like the rays from the sun.
[Illustration: COURTSHIP.
"New hope may bloom, and days may come.
Of milder, calmer beam,
But there's nothing half so sweet in life,
As love's young dream."]
Here is a pyramid of elephants four elephants high! Here is the
acrobat in the midst of the smoke and blaze of an Armstrong cannon,
beginning some flight to a far-off trapeze, or swing, in the air! It is
somewhat different inside.