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"Oh, of course accidents have happened, but much more rarely than most people think. Trapeze performers are a very careful lot, and we seldom have an accident." "Are all those trapeze people your family?" asked Marjorie, for the troupe was billed as one family. "Many of them are, but not all. I have one sister who is an acrobat. She is really one of the best I ever saw for her age.
Brinkley; "but I think they've only measurably succeeded about as temperance drinks have in place of the real strong waters." "On the boat coming up," said Mavering, "we had a troupe of genuine darky minstrels. One of them sang a song about ham that rather took me "'Ham, good old ham!
My little troupe and I were at risk of being wiped out if I had not taken decisive action.
He told me that he had a letter for me from Therese. I was also glad to see a Venetian of my acquaintance who played the pantaloon in the pantomime, three tolerably pretty actresses, a pulcinella, and a scaramouch. Altogether, the troupe was a decent one.
"It IS Pinkney," said Rand; "but I never met you before." "Didn't you come to see a young lady that joined my troupe at Gold Hill last month, and say you'd meet me at Keeler's Ferry in a day or two?" "No-o-o," said Rand, with a good-humored laugh. "I haven't left this mountain for two months."
Less than a half mile farther on another and larger troupe appeared among the boulders just at the water's edge. Profiting by my experience, I kept out of sight among the bushes and watched the animals play about until one hopped to a rock and sat quietly for an instant. I got six in this way, but we were able to recover only three of them from the water.
Indeed, the place seemed to be drowsing off through very breathlessness amid that faint murmur which the stage gives forth when the whole troupe are raising the deafening uproar of some grand finale. "Oh, the cows!" Bordenave suddenly shouted in his hoarse voice.
In the present torrid state of the weather, can the Oriental craftsmanship lately introduced here be properly termed Coolie labor? The OATES troupe now performing at the Olympic Theatre must not be confounded with the Horse Opera.
Gunning morosely dabbing his long nose with the repulsive sponge that was shared by the troupe, almost moved her to compassion. A pleasing impatience was already betraying itself in cat-calls and stampings from the sixpenny places, and Mrs.
I could have continued and put the whole opera troupe in "costume de ghost," but I think it was the woman's eyes that drew me back to her face and her story.
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