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But all at once there comes a noisy chattering in a Teutonic tongue and shouts and laughs! . . . How is it possible, so near to the great dead? . . . And there enters a group of tourists, dressed more or less in the approved "smart" style. A guide, with a droll countenance, recites to them the beauties of the place, bellowing at the top of his voice like a showman at a fair.
I remember him when, in his chambers in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and beasts, and creeping things, which Pidock's showman would have done as well.
This idea that the actor is a showman still lingers; but no one with any real appreciation of the best elements of the drama applies this vulgar standard to a great body of artists. The fierce light of publicity that beats upon us makes us liable, from time to time, to dissertations upon our public and private lives, our manners, our morals, and our money.
"Perhaps I fell in," answered the lad with a faint smile. "Perhaps. But you have not said so. I want you to tell me how you did get in." "I think I was thrown in, Mr. Sparling," answered the Circus Boy quickly. "Thrown in!" exclaimed the showman, leaping to his feet, his face working convulsively in his effort to control his emotions. "Phil Forrest, do you mean that?" "I do." Mr.
Dick, with responsive good-humor, seized the opportunity to deliver a resounding thump on Braddock's back, almost knocking the breath out of him. If one could have looked into the brain of the grinning pickpocket, he might have detected a vast regret that policy made it inadvisable to thump the showman on the jaw instead of the back.
"After things got quiet the showman thought he would make one more stagger at it, anyway, though his confidence was beginning to get mighty shaky. The supes started the panorama grinding along again, and he says: "'Ladies and gentlemen, this exquisite painting represents the raising of Lazarus from the dead by our Saviour.
'Ah! that's too bad, burst out the Hibernian tones. 'Why, is not the best of everything hidden away from the common eye? Out of sight stony cave It is the secret worker that lays the true solid foundation, raises the new realms, and forms the precious jewels. The torrent of r's was irresistible! 'Police! order! cried the showman.
The pigeon, meanwhile, dressed its feathers and looked complacently down, as if used to the incident. "Having fed, Caraba Radokala will now be quite gentle and good-humored," said the showman. "If any lady desires to shake hands with him, she may do so with perfect safety. Will any lady embrace the opportunity?"
Tracy of Lizzie, and the showman was enthusiastic about the chance Joe had taken to add to his act. "I hope it works all right," the ring-master said. "You'll have to try it out in private." "Oh, surely," assented Joe. He made arrangements to have his motor-cycle and seal added to the car in which his tank and goldfish were carried, so all his special possessions would be together.
He gave, in the eyes of the seekers after amusement, a lustre to America. * He created the metier of showman on a grandiose scale worthy to be professed by a man of genius. He early realized that essential feature of a modern democracy, its readiness to be led to what will amuse and instruct it.
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