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Andy evaded them, leading the way to the street lining the circus grounds at one side. "Look there," suddenly exclaimed the clown in a gasping tone. The main tent was on fire. A mob was trying to pull down the menagerie tent. "Hi!" yelled the leader of a gang of boys rushing past them and halting, "here's some show folks." "Pelt them!" cried another voice. "They won't pay my father his feed bill."
Byron had not yet done, this, when he was rushing about between London, Brighton, Cambridge, and Newstead shooting, gambling, swimming, alternately drinking deep and trying to starve himself into elegance, green-room hunting, travelling with disguised companions, patronizing D'Egville the dancing-master, Grimaldi the clown, and taking lessons from Mr.
'Why, mistress, said the foolish clown, 'if I have wit enough to find the way out of this wood, I have enough to serve my turn. 'Out of the wood do not desire to go, said the enamoured queen. 'I am a spirit of no common rate. I love you. Go with me, and I will give you fairies to attend upon you.
Transferring the bag to Evangeline, he held out his hands for the baby. "You here?" Miss Theodosia exclaimed stupidly. "Yes are you?" Every one laughed. Laughing was so easy! Elly Precious from his lofty shoulder-post clapped small, joyous hands and crowed. In the ring a clown threw them kisses. A fairy in short, silvery skirts rode by on two horses. "Wait! Watch her watch her!"
In fact, the conclusion I arrive at, senor bachelor, is, that to write histories, or books of any kind, there is need of great judgment and a ripe understanding. To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
"Yet it shall be; thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse."
The exact conformity between our Clown and the Exodiarii and Emboliariae of the Roman stage is ascertained by that passage in Pliny "Lucceia Mima centum annis in scena pronuntiavit.
"Perhaps I am more of a sailor than I thought," she said to herself. "I never knew I would be brave enough to go to sea. I wish the Bold Tin Soldier and the Calico Clown could see me now. I'm sure they never had an adventure like this!" So the Lamb on Wheels stood on her wooden platform in the middle of the raft and looked at the water of the brook.
Female parts were acted by women, but it was not a general custom; and the Clown of the piece was always a Brahma, or if not, at any rate a pupil of Brahma. Also among the minor characters was the Vita, "the accomplished companion," a part sometimes played by men and sometimes by women.
Eyes wide open with wonder at the smell and the bigness of the tent and the paraphernalia used by the performers, Jerry rose to his feet. He looked back of him, but only the canvas side of the tent met his gaze. Whiteface, the clown, had entirely disappeared! The lively air the band was playing seemed to get right inside of Jerry, for his heart began to pound fast and his eyes were dancing.
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