A Tale of Two 'Tweens
Two boys in their 'tweens
Around the time of 1915
Had jobs and chores at home
Couldn't just run and roam
One Saturday when in town
Saw an ad the circus
Was coming around
Saved their pennies
Did some work
Couldn't wait to see
What was possible quirks
Thrilled with excitement
When the time came around
Wanted to go all day to town
Around lunch dad said could go
They ran to all the way to show
Longingly waited in the line
Wondering what on the inside
They would finally find
Inside the huge tent
Found seats prefectly fixed
Comfortable in there place
Never knew would have to race
Outside in a heated pace
To be saved from terrible harm
The show had started excitement
Built, someone in the bleachers
Some liquor spilled
Another person who just as careless
Threw down a match that was what set it
Someone yelled fire as the tent went
Up in flames and the 'tweens
Went jumping, running
Saving their skin
Looking back over their
Shoulder as they ran
Both hit the brick wall
Of the local dry good store
Knocked flat out pulled
Away from the fire
By some passerby
Lived to tell about it
On another day
I was glad they were alive that I say
(This is based on a true story that my father told me of this happening to him and his
brother in Concord around 1912 up to 1915. They were both just before being a teen ager
or very early teens.)
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