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Updated: April 30, 2025
I'll be the clown!" exclaimed Chris, pointing to the poster which showed trapeze performers turning somersaults in the air, a clown playing ringmaster to a dancing white pony and a girl walking a tight rope. "I'll be the dancin' pony!" cried Celia Jane. "I'll be the rope-walker," Nora said. "And what'll I be?" asked Jerry plaintively, feeling left entirely out in the cold.
And then faster and faster they went, all of them dancing, first one foot out in the air and then the other, the horses leaning more and more, and the ringmaster going round and round the center-pole, cracking his whip and shouting "Hi! hi!" and the clown cracking jokes behind him; and by and by all hands dropped the reins, and every lady put her knuckles on her hips and every gentleman folded his arms, and then how the horses did lean over and hump themselves!
The clown, in evening dress, personating the mock ringmaster, the conventional spotted merryman, and a stalwart gymnast in buff fleshings, bore the drooping form of the favorite in their arms, and, followed by the bystanders, who offered ineffectual assistance, carried the wounded man across the ring and through the draped arch under the music gallery.
"I don't want to be a clown!" and with a bellow he ran out of the tent, followed by the hooting candy peddlers. "Well, who are you?" demanded the ringmaster of two colored boys who stepped forward. "Double trapeze act, sir," said one of them. "Oh, here you are. Let's see what you can do." The ringmaster set free the temporary trapeze rigging. These aspirants did quite well, singly.
"The really funny things don't get into the ring in a circus, unless by accident." In the meantime the ringmaster was making his loud-voiced announcement out under the big top.
They screamed in a chorus of delight when the funny old clown, who had been forcibly deprived of three tin flutes in rapid succession, now produced yet a fourth from the seemingly inexhaustible depths of his baggy white pants a flute with a string and a bent pin affixed to it and, secretly hooking the pin in the tail of the cross ringmaster's coat, was thereafter enabled to toot sharp shrill blasts at frequent intervals, much to the chagrin of the ringmaster, who seemed utterly unable to discover the whereabouts of the instrument dangling behind him.
The president heard how the senator's boy and I stampeded the elephants and invited the senator's boy to bring his young friend around to the white house to supper. Well, we went. I forgot what we had to eat, I was so interested in the president's conversation. He talked about the show business as though he had been a ringmaster in a circus.
"All acts cut short five minutes tonight," sang the voice of the ringmaster at the entrance to the dressing tent. "You see," said the clown, nodding his head at Teddy. "No, I hear," grumbled Teddy. "What's it all about?" "Don't ask me. I don't know. I'm not running this show." "Lucky for the show that you aren't," muttered the Circus Boy. "What's that?" "I was just thinking out loud, I guess."
In the end he bought Barney, without haggling, at Collins's own terms and engaged Sammy and the other two tumblers as well. Collins staged the trick properly, as it would be staged in the theatre, even had ready and set up all the necessary apparatus, and himself acted as ringmaster while the prospective purchaser looked on.
"Hush, you mustn't talk in the show," cautioned her brother. "The ringmaster is the only one who can talk, and I'm him. The next part of the show is the dance of the Sawdust Doll." This was Dorothy's chance, and she came out with her toy. And then and there the Sawdust Doll did a funny little dance while Mirabell played on a mouth organ.
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