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She accompanied Alce to the swings, though she would not go up in them, and to the merry-go-round, though she would not ride in it. "There's Ellen Godden out with her sister's young man," said a woman's voice in the crowd. "Maybe he'll take the young girl now he can't get the old 'un," a man answered her. "Oh, Arthur Alce ull never change from Joanna Godden."
Beira need only to have added to her "Sea-View" and "Beach" hotels, a few bathing-suits drying on a clothes-line, a tin-type artist, and a merry-go-round, to make us feel perfectly at home. Beira being the port on the Indian Ocean which feeds Mashonaland and Matabeleland and the English settlers in and around Buluwayo and Salisbury, English influence has proclaimed itself there in many ways.
A little canvas village of tents and booths had sprung up, just beyond the boundaries of the garden, in the green expanse of the park. A crowd thronged its streets, the men dressed mostly in black holiday best, funeral best the women in pale muslins. Here and there tricolour bunting hung inert. In the midst of the canvas town, scarlet and gold and crystal, the merry-go-round glittered in the sun.
It'll be Christmas by and by," comforted the trainer humorously. "That's what I am trying to do," answered Phil a bit unsteadily. "How's your head?" "Whirling like a merry-go-round." He heard the trainer chuckling. The spectators were shouting out Phil's name all over the big tent. "Fine, fine!" chuckled James Sparling, rubbing his palms together. "That ought to fill the tent tonight."
Then began a merry-go-round, for Christmas, properly bedevilled, lost his presence of mind, and in a fancy costume of the Elizabethan age a ruff of harness waltzed most fantastically. Again a few soothing words and two bananas calmed his affrighted and angry soul. Great is the virtue of the banana! A goodly hour was spent in untying the knots, and Tom made the one joke of his life.
"Peter said 'yes, ma'am, and really meant to mind. He walked off and pretty soon oh, yes, I forgot to say that his mother gave him ten cents to spend for popcorn or on the merry-go-round. So pretty soon Peter saw a dog walking around with his tail sort of down as though he didn't know anybody and was not having a very nice time.
"I want a ride on the merry-go-round." "So do I," added Flossie. "And then it will be time for the balloon to go up," added Bert. "Do you think the wind is too strong?" he asked his father. "Well, it is blowing pretty hard, and it's getting worse. I think there is going to be a storm. But I see men working around the balloon, and I think they are going to send it up.
"Good Heaven!" he thought, as he smoked his second pipe; "how can I believe that it was I who used to lounge all day in this easy-chair reading Paul de Kock, and smoking mild Turkish; who used to drop in at half price to stand among the pressmen at the back of the boxes and see a new burlesque and finish the evening with the 'Chough and Crow, and chops and pale ale at 'Evans'. Was it I to whom life was such an easy merry-go-round?
Here at the Gorka as at "the merry-go-round," the promenade near Sabornya, the doughboy learned how to put the right persuasion into his voice as he said Mozhna, barishna, meaning: Will you take a slide or walk with me, little girl? At Christmas, New Year's and St. Patrick's Day, they had special entertainments. Late in March "I" Company three times repeated its grand minstrel show.
"And they said that bird's head was busted wide open and his brains scattered all over France. Now there he is, big as life. I'll bet ten bucks to a lousy centime he lives to fall off a merry-go-round and break his neck. For the luva Pete!"
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