{"product_id":"2940013243279","title":"THE YOUNG ACROBAT","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKIT WATSON.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was great excitement in Smyrna, especially among the boys.\u003cbr\u003eBarlow's Great American Circus in its triumphal progress from State to\u003cbr\u003eState was close at hand, and immense yellow posters announcing its\u003cbr\u003earrival were liberally displayed on fences and barns, while smaller\u003cbr\u003ebills were put up in the post office, the hotel, and the principal\u003cbr\u003estores, and distributed from house to house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the largest circus that had ever visited Smyrna. At least a dozen\u003cbr\u003eelephants marched with ponderous steps in its preliminary procession,\u003cbr\u003ewhile clowns, acrobats, giants, dwarfs, fat women, cannibals, and hairy\u003cbr\u003esavages from Thibet and Madagascar, were among the strange wonders which\u003cbr\u003ewere to be seen at each performance for the small sum of fifty cents,\u003cbr\u003echildren half price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor weeks the young people had been looking forward to the advent of\u003cbr\u003ethis marvelous aggregation of curiosities, and the country papers from\u003cbr\u003efarther east had given glowing accounts of the great show, which was\u003cbr\u003eemphatically pronounced greater and more gorgeous than in any previous\u003cbr\u003eyear. But it may be as well to reproduce, in part, the description given\u003cbr\u003ein the posters:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BARLOW'S GREAT NORTH AMERICAN CIRCUS.\u003cbr\u003eNow in its triumphal march across the continent, will\u003cbr\u003e         give two grand performances,\u003cbr\u003e                   AT SMYRNA\u003cbr\u003e   On the afternoon and evening of May 18th.\u003cbr\u003e       Never in all its history has this\u003cbr\u003eUnparalleled show embraced a greater variety of attractions,\u003cbr\u003e    or included a larger number of world famous\u003cbr\u003eAcrobats, Clowns, Bare back Riders, Rope walkers, Trapeze\u003cbr\u003e           Artists, and Star Performers,\u003cbr\u003e   In addition to a colossal menagerie, comprising\u003cbr\u003e       Elephants, Tigers, Lions, Leopards,\u003cbr\u003e    and other wild animals in great variety.\u003cbr\u003e   All this and far more, including a hundred\u003cbr\u003e                  DARING ACTS,\u003cbr\u003e Can be seen for the trifling sum of Fifty cents;\u003cbr\u003e              Children half price.\u003cbr\u003e            COME ONE!      COME ALL!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168571572464,"sku":"2940013243279","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013243279_p0.jpg?v=1763578839","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013243279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}