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But here they walked up and down large airy cages, or stretched themselves out in the sun, or dozed in their sleeping-rooms with no brutal showmen to molest them, and no Van Amburgh to make them afraid and seemed really very well to do, good-humored, and contented.

Two years ago some fellows went, and had a row with one of the showmen, and it got into the papers." "Oh, rubbish! you can say you're only going out to tea." Valentine shook his head. "Oh, yes, you can," continued Raymond. "By-the-bye, there's a fellow here called Rosher, isn't there? My guv'nor knows his people, and told me to ask him out sometimes; tell him to come too, if he can."

At these old fairs the showmen and gipsies take large sums in the "pleasure" departments for admission to their exhibitions swings, roundabouts, shooting-galleries, and coco-nut shies. In Evesham Post-Office a gipsy woman once asked me to write a letter; she handed me an order for £10, and instructed me to send it to a London firm for £5 worth of best coco-nuts and £5 worth of seconds.

Barnum also secured duplicates of the models of machinery exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London and a great many interesting panoramas and pictures. These were all exhibited at his museum in New York and afterwards sold to other travelling showmen who exhibited them throughout the country.

But you would be a wonder among showmen." "I can do quite a lot of things now." "I know you can. And you will. What do you say?" "It's funny, but since you told me of the accident to your bareback man, I was going to ask you something." "What?" "Rather, I was going to suggest " "Well, out with it!" "I was going to suggest that you let me fill in his place until he is able to work again.

But when the truth came out, the Queen's faith in Yankee showmen must have suffered a shock, as must that of the honest old Duke of Wellington, who used to drop in at Egyptian Hall so often to see the tiny creature assume the dress and the pensive pose of Napoleon "thinking of the loss of the battle of Waterloo," and looking so like his old enemy, seen through a reversed field-glass.

Later on, when the dancing was at its height, she exclaimed with all the fervour of a charmed imagination: "I feel as the Duchess de What's-her-name must have felt, Bobby, when she danced all night at her own ball, and then dressed for the guillotine instead of going to bed. We may all be shot in the morning." The Indian fakirs and showmen gave a performance in the courtyard at midnight.

His name, he told me, was George Washington Morrison Nutt, and his father was Major Rodnia Nutt, a substantial farmer, of Manchester, New Hampshire. I was not long in dispatching an efficient agent to Manchester, and in overcoming the competition with other showmen who were equally eager to secure this extraordinary pigmy.

But he could tell me nothing of those early preachings of our revered founder in Moorfields, which would have been more pleasant to me than all this vain babble about drolls and jesters, gingerbread bakers and showmen. "When we had walked the round of the place, and it was time to take coach for our lodging at Chelsea he having brought me thus far to see St.

Yet, after all, it is "the great world" which he describes, that world upon which the broadening and refining processes of a high civilization have done their utmost, and which, consequently, must possess an intellectual interest superior to any thing in the life of London thieves, traveling showmen, and coachees.