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He had gone on hoping from day to day that Barker might not notice the "let-down" in her work, and now the blow had fallen. How could he tell her? One of the acts came tumbling out of the main tent. There was a moment's confusion, as clowns, acrobats and animals passed each other on their way to and from the ring, then the lot cleared again, and Polly came slowly from the dressing tent.
One of them, wearing an enormous pair of black goggles, bestrode a sort of hobby-horse, made of papier-maché, and, when he saw that Hawkinson was taking his picture, cavorted and grimaced, to the huge delight of the onlookers. The female clowns, all of whom were burdened by excessive avoirdupois, wiggled their hips and shoulders as they marched in a sort of Oriental shimmy.
"The clowns had to pull the knives out to get him loose, for he was pinned fast. So the word went around to watch out for De Ville, and no one dared be more than barely civil to his wife. And she was a sly bit of baggage, too, only all hands were afraid of De Ville. "But there was one man, Wallace, who was afraid of nothing.
There was death and darkness where once the rollicking clowns and dancing dolls had been set to mechanical music. Jean, coming back with the chocolate, found Emily with a great white plush elephant in her arms. His trappings were of red velvet and there was much gold; he was the last of a line of assorted sizes. There had always been a white elephant in Miss Emily's window.
"Why," replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his nationality should cause this question, "we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better than the Americans do." "True. Well, if I can't take you as a servant, I can as a clown. You see, my friend, in France they exhibit foreign clowns, and in foreign parts French clowns." "Ah!" "You are pretty strong, eh?"
Of clowns again, of the glory of knavery, and of the eternal type that shall endure. Lastly he sang of Her the Woman of the Ring flawless, complete, untrammelled in each subtly curving limb; earth's highest output, time's noblest expression.
"About the middle of the afternoon, came two Kachina racers to run with the clowns, and soon they began to call out some of the young men from the audience, known to be the best runners. After a while the son of Huckovi chief was chosen to run, but he was very bashful and refused to perform.
Jerry suddenly sat down, for all eyes were directed towards him. He didn't look around for Danny and Chris, for he was too confused to face all those pairs of eyes. Four or five of the other clowns gathered about Whiteface, looked up at Jerry and clapped their hands, too.
Then began a frantic dance with maniacal gestures, mad stamping, and somersaults of boneless clowns. Diana took part in the dance, howling too, and jumped to the very roof of the projectile. An inexplicable flapping of wings and cock-crows of singular sonority were heard. Five or six fowls flew about striking the walls like mad bats.
Sure never were seen two such sweet little ponies, Other horses are clowns, and these macaronies, And to give them this title, I'm sure isn't wrong, Their legs are so slim, and their tails are so long.
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