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Updated: June 15, 2025
Of all the reminiscences connected with the illegitimate drama that have dwelt with me from my early childhood until now, not one is more vividly impressed upon my memory than that standard old comedy on horseback performed by circus-riders long since gone to rest, and entitled "Billy Button's Journey to Brentford."
D Company keeps 'em to horse-work mostly. We call D the circus-riders and B the cooks. They call us the Gunners." "An' you've rejected me," said the man who had done sea-time, pushing out before us. "The Army's goin' to the dogs." I stood in the corridor looking for Burgard. "Come up to my room and have a smoke," said Matthews, private of the Imperial Guard.
In the realm of gymnasts, jugglers, circus-riders, dancers in which Andrew had thence found his being, there was no one to replace the mellow old English clown, who travelled around with Sterne and Montaigne and Shakespeare and Bunyan and the Bible, as the only books of his permanent library.
At Rome indeed it was too operatic. The knights on horseback there were a bevy of circus-riders, and I'm sure half the mad revellers repaired every night to the Capitol for their twelve sous a day. I have just been reading over the Letters of the President de Brosses.
They managed their machines like circus-riders, and resembled little gauchos, throwing them back and running upon the back wheel only, and bounding over obstacles. They had strapped their bags on their backs, and their blue cap-bands flapped about their ears like pennons.
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