usual, I was told, for a company of circus-riders, whose tents I had seen
from a distance on the lake, was in town, and this had attracted a throng
of people from the country
I made my way to a street of shops: it had a busy appearance, more so than
usual, I was told, for a company of circus-riders, whose tents I had seen
from a distance on the lake, was in town, and this had attracted a throng
of people from the country. I saw a fruit-stall tended by a man who had
the coarsest red hair I think I ever saw, and of whom I bought two or
three enormous ‘bough apples,’ as he called them. He apologized for the
price he demanded. ‘The farmers,’ said he, ‘know that just now there is a
call for their early fruit, while the circus people are in town, and they
make me pay a “igh price for it.’ I told him I perceived he was no Yankee.
‘I am a Londoner,’ he replied; ‘and I left London twelve years ago to
slave and be a poor man in Ohio.’ He acknowledged, however, that he had
two or three times got together some property, ‘but the Lord,’ he said,
‘laid his hand on it.’

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