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Professor Strong and his gifted salamander associates will eat fire as they did just now, at each and every show in the big tent. I thank you!" "Well, Joe, it went all right!" said Jim Tracy when the performers had left the stage and the young fire-eater was alone on the platform. "It went like a house afire!" "Yes," said Joe, "it seemed to.
His own party could not be held in line. Scores of Democratic newspapers turned against him. Save the legislature of Illinois, no Northern assembly, representative or other, that could speak with any show of authority, dared to support him. No Southern fire-eater was ever half so reviled.
"Joe, did you hear what he said?" asked Helen, as she moved back with the young acrobat in conformity with the officer's order. "You mean that we've got to slide?" "No, that a fire-eater started the blaze. Does he mean a professional 'fire bug, as I have heard them called?" "Oh, not at all!" exclaimed Joe. "A fire-eater is a chap who does such stunts in a museum, theater, or even in a circus.
"Well, I don't know," said Joe, rather doubtfully. "Is that straight goods, about your being a fire-eater?" "I was once. But I'm not looking for that kind of a job now," was the quick answer. "I lost my nerve, I tell you. Handling stakes or driving a wagon would be my limit." "What sort of an act in the fire line did you have?" asked Joe, for a certain idea was beginning to form in his mind.
"I don't embark in any such business on a 'we'll see. The young man is a fire-eater who might kill me; I ought to be rough-shod and as good a hand with a sword or a pistol as he is. Set me up in business, and I'll keep my word." "Prevent the marriage and I will set you up," said the post master.
The earliest mention I have found of a public fire-eater in England is in the correspondence of Sir Henry Watton, under date of June 3rd, 1633. He speaks of an Englishman "like some swabber of a ship, come from the Indies, where he has learned to eat fire as familiarly as ever I saw any eat cakes, even whole glowing brands, which he will crush with his teeth and swallow."
I'm sorry for your disappointment, you Fenchurch Street fire-eater. Come away. It will be but proper, you know, for a bridegroom elect to go and ask news of la charmante Miss Clara." "As we went out of the house," Lord Kew told Clive, "I said to Barnes that every word I had uttered upstairs with regard to the reconciliation was a lie.
It is not probable that he meant to exclude from full citizenship the Celts and Teutons and Gauls and Slavs who make up so large a proportion of our population; he hardly meant to exclude the Jews, for even the most ardent fire-eater would hardly venture to advocate the disfranchisement of the thrifty race whose mortgages cover so large a portion of Southern soil.
By my sword, the fighting we have had already on this English soil has made quite a fire-eater of you. Why, Leoni, I feel as ready as can be now to enter into the lion's den. Not get out again! Tchah! With followers like these, who's going to stand against us? Vive la France!" "Vive la France, Monsieur le Comte," said Leoni, in a low meaning tone.
They gave a hint to my Lord of York's steward and he came down and declared that the Archbishop required Quipsome Hal, and would of his grace send a purse of nobles to the Fire-eater, wherewith he was to be off on the spot without more ado, or he might find it the worse for him, and they, together with mine host's good wife, took care that the rogue did not carry away Perronel with him, as he was like to have done.
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