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Wa'al , as I was sayin ' -- I hope I ai n't tirin ' ye with my goin 's on ? '' `` No , '' said Mrs. Cullom , `` I 'm engaged to hear ye , but nobody 'd suppose to see ye now that ye was such a f ` lorn little critter as you make out . '' `` It 's jest as I 'm tellin ' ye , an ' more also , as the Bible says , '' returned David , and then , rather more impressively , as if he were leading up to his conclusion , `` it come along to a time when I was ` twixt thirteen an ' fourteen . The ' was a cirkis billed to show down here in Homeville , an ' ev'ry barn an ' shed fer miles around had pictures stuck onto 'em of el ` phants , an ' rhinoceroses , an ' ev'ry animul that went into the ark ; an ' girls ridin ' bareback an ' jumpin ' through hoops , an ' fellers ridin ' bareback an ' turnin ' summersets , an ' doin ' turnovers on swings ; an ' clowns gettin ' hoss-whipped , an ' ev'ry kind of a thing that could be pictered out ; an ' how the ' was to be a grand percession at ten o'clock , ` ith golden chariots , an ' scripteral allegories , an ' the hull bus ` nis ; an ' the gran ' performance at two o'clock ; admission twenty-five cents , children under twelve , at cetery , an ' so forth . Wa'al , I had n't no more idee o ' goin ' to that cirkis 'n I had o ' flyin ' to the moon , but the night before the show somethin' waked me ` bout twelve o'clock . I do n't know how ' t was . I 'd ben helpin ' mend fence all day , an ' gen ` ally I never knowed nothin ' after my head struck the bed till mornin ' .