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"Hoddy, Mars Geo'ge!" he exclaimed, bobbing his head and kicking his heel out behind in approved plantation style. "Hello, Plato," replied the young man, "what are you doing here?" "Gwine ter school, Mars Geo'ge," replied the lad; "larnin' ter read an' write, suh, lack de w'ite folks." "Wat you callin' dat w'ite man marster fur?" whispered a tall yellow boy to the acrobat addressed as Plato.
Courage and steady nerve were the requisites for the job, so the manager had said; but any physician would have told him that only a trained acrobat could long endure the nervous strain, the muscular tension, and the physical rack of such an ordeal. What matter? The few dollars earned in this way would mean a great deal to the mother, whom the girl's marriage had left desolate.
No one but an acrobat or a sailor could have got up to that bell-rope from the bracket, and no one but a sailor could have made the knots with which the cord was fastened to the chair. Only once had this lady been brought into contact with sailors, and that was on her voyage, and it was someone of her own class of life, since she was trying hard to shield him, and so showing that she loved him.
Sometimes he allows himself to be carried up bodily, clinging to the cant-hook like an acrobat to a bar, until the log has rolled once; when, his weapon loosened, he drops lightly, easily to the ground.
"Oh, yes, indeed, I want you to sing," said Mr. Brown. "But I have some good news, and I might as well tell it to those to whom it comes before the show goes on. It will not take more than a few minute. Lucile Mart the good news is for you!" And Mr. Brown waved the telegram at the boy acrobat and his sister, the singer. "Is it from our kin?" asked Mart. "Yes," answered Bunny's father.
Look at an acrobat or a boxer: there is what your limbs might have been made for strength and agility: that is the potential which is in human nature in these respects. Then, if you wish to see what may be made of the human muscles as regards rapid dexterity, look at the Wizard of the North or at an Indian juggler.
After exchanging a few words with his father, the little harlequin went through still another trick: erect upon a galloping horse, he appeared in four characters as a pilgrim, a sailor, a soldier, and an acrobat; and every time that he passed near me, he looked at me.
Some day if I don't turn stoker or acrobat beforehand, and give up peddling in the emotions some day I shall write music to it. That would be a melodrama worth making." "Morbid, Heirtz, morbid!" "All women are not of your opinion. I remember once hearing a woman say, had the author still lived, she would have pilgrimaged barefoot to see him." "Oh, I dare say. There are women enough of that kind."
We used to meet at dinner every day; but then she fell in love with an acrobat I suppose you would call him an acrobat I mean one of those gutta-percha men who tie their legs in a knot over their heads. The child was deformed. I was awfully cut up about it at the time, but it's all over now. The conversation then came to a pause.
The Italian, who had witnessed the scene in which Fanfaro had refused to cross weapons with a Talizac, laughed maliciously. "The companions of the former acrobat are, no doubt, ignorant of whom they are dealing with?" asked Talizac. "On the contrary, they know him well." "I don't understand it! They speak to him, shake hands with him; it is extraordinary."
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