[Illustration: "_Young man, this is a two dollar show._"]
Just as I came into the hall, I encountered an individual dressed in a
rather extraordinary garb. I looked him up and down, and saw that he
was well armed. It reminded me of the case of a minister in the
backwoods calling on a bushranger to go round with the hat. The latter
did so, and the first young man he came to dropped in two or three
cents. The bushranger looked at him in a peculiar way, cocked his
pistol in a significant manner, and said, "Young man, this is a two
dollar show." The young man at once dropped in two dollars. I think
that perhaps my friend might come round with me presently, we might
frighten some of the gentlemen who have come here with full purses.
_Congregational Church Bazaar, Newport,
October 22nd, 1896._