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Well, in the couple of weeks that I hung aroun' there he coached me along till I could throw a knife as good as he could. He thought it was great sport, teaching me to throw a knife so good, that a way. "Since I left down there I've sort of practiced that knife-throwing business now and then, just for fun. Anyways I thought it was just for fun.
One day, because the ring-master called him a frog-eater, or something like that and maybe a little worse, he shoved him against the soft pine background he used in his knife-throwing act, so quick the ring-master didn't have time to think, and there, before the audience, De Ville kept the air on fire with his knives, sinking them into the wood all around the ring-master so close that they passed through his clothes and most of them bit into his skin.
"I will pay them well if they can really amuse us, but I want something more than the old tricks of knife-throwing and balancing. They must show us something new." The servant went outside and spoke to the jugglers: "The great man bids you tell him what you can do.
In sword-swallowing and knife-throwing, the natives of the Flowery Kingdom are without rivals, and the uninitiated spectator can never understand how a man can make a breakfast of Asiatic cutlery without incurring the risk of dyspepsia.
But presently, from the opposite side of the fire, some one began to sing, in a rich barytone, a dirgelike thing that caught the attention of first one then another of the men, making them stop their yarning and knife-throwing to listen. The tune, in its homely power to evoke the image of the ceremonial of death, was more or less familiar to most of them.
Marco stroked his chin thoughtfully and in perplexity. "Then the jig's up," he announced definitely. "You see, Wildwood, we've had all kinds of trouble suits, judgments, injunctions along of fellows getting hurt in the show. One man lost an ear in the knife-throwing act. He recovered two thousand dollars damages. Another sprained an ankle. Had to pay him eight dollars a week for six months.
By a slight miscalculation of distance and elevation, the eye was unharmed, but the well-developed nose was more effectually ruined than its original ever was by the most scientific pugilist. "Well, gentlemen, what shall we do with the prisoner?" asks Watson. "We're waiting for you," said a tall Ten Miler, who had been a pleased witness of the knife-throwing and its results.
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