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While I was looking through his telescope, the showman pointed out to me two of the highest of these peaks, and told me their names, that is the names which the astronomers had given them; for these rocky heights have been marked upon maps of the moon, just as the Welsh mountains are marked upon the map of England and Wales.
Having nothing to allege against this genealogical objection, the showman points again to the scene. During this little interruption, you perceive that the Anglo-Saxon energy as the phrase now goes has been at work in the spectacle before us.
There might have been several others, but I forget; they were, however, all exhibited to the wondering multitude by Mr. Wishart, and very much in the tone, voice, and manner that a showman exhibits the wild beasts at a country fair " This is the royal tiger from Bengal," &c.
All at once the showman tilted up the rim of his hat and gazed more keenly. "Phil!" he shouted, casting the hat aside and running forward with outstretched arms. "It's Phil, it's Phil Forrest!" A moment more and Mr. James Sparling had clasped his little Circus Boy about the waist, hugging him delightedly.
He had a humorous novel in view, and a series of more aspiring comic essays than any he had attempted. Often he alluded to the opening for an American magazine, "not quite so highfalutin as the Atlantic nor so popular as Harper's." His mind was beginning to soar above the showman and merrymaker. His manners had always been captivating.
Whether Lord and Lady Derby received the foreign ministers, or Lord and Lady Palmerston, would be a matter of indifference; whether they gave the nicest parties would be important only to the persons at those parties. A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.
"Then again, you are going right into territory where you will have the stiffest kind of opposition. At least five shows are booked for our territory almost from now on." "Have any of them billed that territory?" "I think the Wild West Show has. The others are about due there now." "It is going to be a hand-to-hand conflict, then?" "Something of that sort," smiled the showman.
"He ain't dead again, is he?" demanded Cap'n Sproul, apprehensively. "No, he ain't, and that's where he loses," replied the old showman. He chafed his blue nose and thumped his feet on the floor to warm them. It was plain that he had been long exposed to the December wind. "Law," announced Hiram, "has got more wrinkles in it than there are in a fake mermaid's tail.
As they entered the harbor of the latter city a stranger asked the great showman to point out "Barnum's house" from the deck. Barnum did so, and then another bystander remarked, "I know all about that house, for I did a lot of painting there for several months while Barnum was in Europe."
The Signor was graciously pleased to accept, and followed his message of acceptance in person a few minutes later. Bucky remained quietly in the corner of the room back of the door until the showman had entered, and while the latter was meeting Collins he silently locked the door and pocketed the key. The sheriff acknowledged Hardman's condescension brusquely and without shaking hands.
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