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"Is that horse, the Clown, still at the stables?" she asked. Ormiston thrust his hands into his pockets; and sitting on the edge of the sofa with his knees apart, stared down at the carpet. The mention of the Clown always cut him, and raised in him a remorseful anger. Yes she was like his father, going straight to the point, he thought.
"I have heard so much about you." "Did you hear how once I burned my trousers?" asked the Calico Clown. "I heard it mentioned," the Donkey said; "but I should like to hear more about it." "I'll tell you," offered the funny chap. So he related that tale, just as it is told in another of these books. "Well, that was quite an adventure," said the Donkey, when all had been told.
Not unto land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid worldling, Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh a blessing down.
I longed to see the pantomime, having heard much from my cousins and from Leo of its delights and of the harlequin, columbine, and clown. But my father wanted to be at home again, and he took me and Rubens and Nurse Bundle with him at the end of November. I must not forget to speak of an incident which had a considerable influence on my character at this time.
You remember Alice was still dressed up as the gay equestrienne in the dressing-table pink and white, with rosy garlands, now very droopy, and she had no stockings on, only white sand-shoes, because she thought they would be easier than boots for balancing on the pig in the graceful bare-backed act. Oswald was attired in red paint and flour and pyjamas, for a clown.
Suddenly there fell upon his ear the muffled sound of a cheer raised by countless voices. The smile upon his lips grew scornful: "The King!" he muttered, "greeting his good Parliament. 'Tis said he loves a well-timed jest; pity to rob England of such a famous clown; perchance in hell the devil may use his wit to while away the dinner hour."
They had of late met scores of these dog's-eared rustics. The peculiarity was, this clown watching under a laden gallows. What for? Denys, if he felt curious, would not show it; he took out two bears' ears from his bundle, and running sticks through them, began to toast them.
Shorty, the Japanese half-caste, clown that he was, dancing and grinning on the outskirts of the struggle, with a final grimace and hysterical giggle led the retreat across the poop and down the poop-ladder. Never had I seen a finer exemplification of mob psychology.
Now, so thickly was it built with neat white houses, that only with strenuous clairvoyance could famous old localities be identified: the ball-ground; the marshy stretch that made skating in winter, or, in spring, a fascinating place to catch cold by wading; the grassy common where "shinny" was played by day and "Yellow Horn" by night; the enchanted spot where the circus built airy castles of canvas, and where, on the day after, one might plant one's feet squarely in the magic ring, on the veritable spot, perchance, where the clown had superhumanly ridden the difficult trick-mule after local volunteers had failed so entertainingly.
The honest clown looked earnestly at me, and said nothing for above half a minute, when, scratching his poll, 'A horse, say you and to Colchester, to carry double? why yes, mistress, alack-a-day, you may have horses enough for money. 'Well, friend, says I, 'that I take for granted; I don't expect it without money. 'Why, but, mistress, says he, 'how much are you willing to give? 'Nay, says I again, 'friend, I don't know what your rates are in the country here, for I am a stranger; but if you can get one for me, get it as cheap as you can, and I'll give you somewhat for your pains.
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