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This is done, and the Rommany dye adroitly making up a parcel resembling the one laid down, steals the latter, leaving the former. Mr Barrow calls this hokkeny baro, the great swindle. I may remark, by the way, that among jugglers and "show-people" sleight of hand is called hanky panky.
And La Gonizetti was a friend of yours, and you took her place, so the mother could stay with the injured daughter." "You're a wonder, yourself!" Fran declared, dropping her hands to stare at him. "Yes, that's it. All these show-people are friends of mine.
William Sebastian's wife rested her knuckles on the table, still regarding Carrie's mother with perplexed distrust. While returning none of the caresses she received, the child lay quite docile and submissive. "Well," said Grandma Padgett, still distantly "folks bring up their children different. There's gypsies always live in tents, and I suppose show-people always expect to travel with shows.
When the press-agent had gone Lilas regarded her companion with open compassion. "Gee! But you're going to have a grand time. That bunch thinks it's smart to be seen with show-people, and of course they'll dance all night." Lorelei groaned. "And I did so want to go straight back to my new home." When she joined her employer after the show she was in no very agreeable frame of mind. Mrs.
"I have been singing about the country for two years; not always in the streets, for some time I was in a company of show-people; but the mistress of the show treated me badly, and I left her. Since then I have been wandering about from place to place, singing in the streets on market-days, and singing at fairs."
The show-people had set out a certain number of benches; and all who sat upon them were to pay a couple of sous for the accommodation.
The show-people had set out a certain number of benches, and all who sat upon them were to pay a couple of sous for the accommodation.
The more immediate scenery consisted of fields and farm-houses outside the car and a monster-headed dwarf and a moustached woman inside it. These latter were not show-people. Alas, deformity and female beards are too common in Italy to attract attention.
Then the thing was to look like you didn't know, or didn't care, how much people stared. After that, I found out that I had no father; he'd deserted mother, and her uncle had turned her out of doors for marrying against his wishes, and she'd have starved if it hadn't been for the show-people." "Dear Fran!" whispered Abbott tenderly.
Crowds were in constant motion, going from place to place to see what could be seen, and stopping where there was any special attraction, or, as happens in our own crowded streets, stopping where a few were incidentally collected. By the afternoon, singers, experts in tricks, and show-people of every description, commenced their operations, and were sure of admiring crowds.
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