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A showman may have a correct method of voice-production indeed, the writer has often studied the showman with admiration but if he speak for hours in the open air in all sorts of weather, a disordered throat is but the natural consequence; and the Wagnerian singer who will shout instead of sing must not expect to retain a voice of musical quality, if, indeed, he retain one at all.
"It is now a quarter to twelve. At noon sharp, your baggage and yourself will be outside of this car. I am in charge here now." The showman leaned back and watched his former car manager hurriedly pack his belongings into a suitcase. "I'll get even with you for this," snarled Snowden as he walked from the car, slamming the door after him. "And a good riddance!" muttered the showman rising.
He paused as if mentally to recount his triumphs, and then continued. "But at the moment of success I am crossed by a prejudice. The ignorant people clamour against my life canaille! I regard them not. But nevertheless their foolish prejudices reach other ears. Hearken!" And like a showman he beckoned Sybilla to the window.
"I know this is Georgie!" one exclaimed, and turned to the others with the impressiveness of a showman. "Major Amberson's only grandchild!" The others said, "It is?" and made clicking sounds with their mouths; two of them loudly whispering, "So handsome!"
"If I can be of any service to you, it will give me much pleasure." And so they followed him, as he walked away with great dignity, to his kennel. "What, may I enquire, has brought you to this neighborhood?" he asked as they arrived at his house. "You see," explained Sweetclover, "we were captured by a very wicked Showman and made to act with him in his puppet-show, so we ran away."
Not simple auction sales, either, though he says he will bait them with a bit of that to excite interest. It will be an annual fair, to last three days, in which he will be the only exhibitor. He's spending half his mornings now in conference with Mr. Agar and Mr. Pitts. Mr. Agar is his sales manager, and Mr. Pitts his showman." She sighed and rippled her fingers along the keyboard.
He has not been in the ring since you left," laughed the showman. "I wish I was back there. I don't like this game for a little bit." "You mean you do not like the work?" "Well, no, not exactly that. The work is all right, but " "But what?" persisted Mr. Sparling. "Never mind, Teddy," interposed Phil. "No tales, you know." "I'm telling no tales. I said I didn't like it and that's the truth.
So great was the rush to see the illustrious guest that one man was crowded overboard, an incident which Miss Lind herself witnessed, and at which she was much alarmed. He was rescued with no other harm than a thorough wetting. Barnum's carriage was in waiting for Miss Lind, and the great showman himself, after placing her within it, mounted the box at the driver's side.
For a few seconds man and boy looked at each other without a word. "What's your idea?" asked the showman quietly. "It's my opinion that somebody doctored him gave him something " The showman uttered a long, low whistle. "You've hit it! You've hit it!" he exclaimed, bringing a hand down on the lad's knee with such force that Phil winced. "It's one of those rascally canvasmen that I discharged.
He would say to the numberless persons who applied, "they were not show-shops, nor he a showman." When he did grant permission he always gave the obliged parties fully and unmistakably to understand that he was conferring upon them a great favour. His temper was suspicious.
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