OCR Text |
Show Tlll~ ADVE~YTURES OF IIUCJ{LL'IJL'RRl~ 1·1~Y. .\. ~ one by one i hey got np and toad, and went a-w 'nYing around the ri11g o gentle ancl wasy and grac )ful, the 111 n looking erer so tall and airy and straight, with their heads bobbing and ,ki1nn1ing along n:wny up th r under the tent-roof, and erery lady::; ro '-1 "'Jfy drc ... · flapping oft and silky around her hip, and .he looking 1ik the m t lov liest pant. ol. And then faster ancl fa ter they went, all of t hern dancing, fir ·t one foot .·tuck out in the air and then the otlwr, th(-" hor, s 1 aning 1nor and more ancl th' ri ng-1naster going round an<l rou1ul the centre-pole, cracking hi:s "·hip ancl :houting "hi! - lli! ., and the clown cracking jokes behind hin1; and by-and-by all hand· <.lroppccl t h ~ n\in , c:.n<l every lady put her knuckle.. on her hips <tncl every g 'ntle1nan folded his ann and then how the horses cli<l lean over ancl hun)p thcrn. cl\'c ! .A1Hl so, one aft r the other thry all ·kippccl off into ihc ring~ and 1nacle the swcei c:t bo'iV I ,. r ,'(\<\, and th n ,'ramperctl out, an<.l everybody cbppecl their hands and went ju L aboul wild. \\'.ell, all through the circu, thry done the mO.'l a t011i~hing thing: ; and all the tiu1 that clo\Vll carri cl on o it 1no~t killed i h people. The ring-n1a~ter couldn't ever ay a word to him but he wa.' back at him qnick a a win!- with the funnie:t thing: a body ev r S<tid · an<l ho\v he ever coulcl think of o 1nany of them, nncl 'O ;-;tu.l<.l('n and .·o pat, \Y3S \vhat I l'Ouldn't noway un<l<'rstand. \rhy, I couldnl a thought of thc1n in a year. And by-and-by a <h·unk n1an tried to get into tho riner -.aid he wanted to ri(le; .·aid he could ride as well as anybody that ever was. They argued 3nd tried to keep him out, but he wouldn't) li .. ten, and the whole show come to a tand-till. Then the people begun to holler at him and 1nake flln of hi1n, and thaL 1nade hi1n mad, and he begun to rip and tear; . ·o that stirred up the people, and a lot of men begun to pile down off of the benches and S\Yann toward.: the ring, . nying> I.NTO ..Y. ICATION I ..V. TIIE RIA"'r;, " l{nock him down ! throw him out ! ., and onr r bvc WOlll C' l o b }gun to scream. ~ o, th n, the ring-1na ·tcr hC' lll<H1C' a litt ll'· ·'P e h, and aid he hoped there wouldn't be no eli ' turbalH'C';ancl if the man would pron1ise he wonlcln •t n1ake no n1on ... trouble, he would let him ride, if he thouo·hL he\ eonld . tny u1 l I E S II B D 'EVE~ 1' E L·: ~ , T 1 'n-1. ill~ hor e. So everybody laugh d and saicl itll right, an<l t1H man got on. The minute hewn on, the hor <' })('gun to rip· and t ar and jtunp and cavort around, with i wo circus lllC'l iJ hanging on to his bridl trying to hold hi 111, an cl the drunk 1nan hanging on to hi::; ncek, and his heel, llying in the air |