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"Seen any other showmen about town this morning?" "No; not any that I know, nor any with paper and brush under his arm." "H-m-m-m," mused the showman. "That's queer. It can't be that the young man across the way has got the start of us. No; that is not possible. He is too green for that. Have his men gone out on the country routes yet, or are they still asleep?" "I don't know.
Here through this beautiful avenue of trees; here where the sunshine is broken into patches by the waving foliage; far away from the din of trumpets, huxterers and showmen; here can the sweet air whisper its low song of peace and lull our fervid imaginations into tranquillity. This is no solitude, though all is quiet and in repose.
When the town awakened next morning there were loud clamorings for the arrest of the showman who had dared to unfurl a circus advertisement from the top of the city's flag pole. The showmen guilty of the deed were many, many miles away by that time, engaged in other similar occupations. At McAlister, a booming western town, the opposition were still hard on the heels of Car Three.
As to their walks in life: among them were clerks and guards from the bank, members of the native constabulary, Indian fakirs and showmen, and venders of foreign gewgaws. Bowles, his thin legs still shaking perceptibly, although he strove mightily to hold them at strict "attention," was the spokesman.
"Will you try her, so that I can see how she works, Mr. Kennedy?" asked the lad after the gangway had been chained down so securely that the elephant would have difficulty in ripping it loose. Jupiter was just as stubborn as he had been before. Phil observed three or four showmen standing near him on the other side. "Please step back, all of you," he said. "Mr.
It was not difficult to divine that they were of a class of itinerant showmen exhibitors of the freaks of Punch for, perched cross-legged upon a tombstone behind them, was a figure of that hero himself, his nose and chin as hooked and his face as beaming as usual.
It was impossible to think of aught but humanity in the bustle and confusion, in the cram and crush, in the wedge and the jam, in the squeezing and shouting, in the hubbub and medley. Such a jolly, rampant, screaming, fighting, maddening, jostling, polyglot, quarrelling, laughing broth of a Vanity Fair! Mendicants, vendors, buyers, gossips, showmen, all swelled the roar. "Here's your cakes!
Two men were seated in easy attitudes on the grass by the church two men of the class of itinerant showmen, exhibitors of the freaks of Punch and they had come there to make needful repairs in the stage arrangements, for one was engaged in binding together a small gallows with thread, while the other was fixing a new black wig upon the head of a puppet. "Are you going to show 'em to-night?
They were domiciled in a large permanent structure, rented to showmen on special occasions. Gigantic characters signifying 'IKI-NINGYO, painted upon the signboard at the entrance, partly hinted the nature of the exhibition.
The owners of great houses and great collections are doomed to share them with the public, and if they would frequent their own establishments, must be content to do so in the capacity of librarians or showmen, for the benefit of their numerous and uninvited visitors.
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