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He tried to ignore it. "Did I ever tell you I used to talk for a strong-man act?" Ed said. "Not a sideshow talker, nothing like that; this guy had an act of his own, full tent and flies. Gondo, his name was, and I can still see those flies: Eighth Wonder of the World up on top, red on blue, and just Gondo underneath, pure white with red outlining. Class, but flashy, if you see what I mean.
"For the love of Pete," interrupted Joe, "go a little easy and let us take it in a little at a time. Any one would think you were the barker at a sideshow. Where is this wonderful thing to be?" "On the roof of one of the big New York hotels," answered Bob. "I forget the name just now, but it's one of the biggest in the city. What do you say, fellows, to taking it in?
"There must be a circus in Highvale yes, the date says to-night," Jim replied. "'Trimble & Wells Great Circus & Sideshow," she read slowly. "I heard about them circuses; some of the children seen them before they came to to where I was, an' once one come to town an' sent free tickets to us, but the deaconesses said it was sinful an' so we couldn't go.
This park presents a bizarre and chaotic mingling of outdoor concerts, variety theatres, bierkabaretts, moving picture halls, promenades and sideshow attractions of the Atlantic City type.
"How are you going to answer your hero's riddle?" she asked. "Before I tell you, suppose you tell me what your answer would be." She reflected. "Well," she said, "it seems to me that, all things being as they are, he should do this: He should go to the sideshow man the minister now and have a very frank talk with him.
Reid's narrative. This man would, in all probability, scorn to spend a dime to witness the performance of a fire-eater in a circus sideshow; but after traveling half round the world he pays a dollar and spends an hour's time watching the fanatical incantations of the solemn little Japanese priests for the sake of seeing the "Hi-Wattarai" which is merely the stunt of walking over hot coals and he then writes it down as the "eighth wonder of the world," while if he had taken the trouble to give the matter even the most superficial investigation, he could have discovered that the secret of the trick had been made public centuries before.
The lad hurried to the room the good woman had set aside for him and quickly made the change of clothing. He was obliged to change everything he had on, for even his shirt had been torn in his battle with the broncho. After bathing and putting on the fresh clothes, Phil hurried from the house, that he might miss nothing of the show. The sideshow band was blaring brazenly when he reached the lot.
If he would turn on his ventriloquism and make a camel say its prayers, they were willing to forgive for the moment anyhow even their nearest enemies. So we became a sort of travelling sideshow, with Jeremy ballyhooing for himself in an amazing flow of colloquial Arabic, and hardly ever repeating the same trick.
Charley sighed and shrugged himself deeper into the upholstery. "You know," Roquefort said suddenly, "I can't help thinking." "Oh?" Charley said, fidgeting his feet. "That's right," Roquefort said. "I mean, all these people. And Dr. Schinsake. I remember once, I went to a circus, or a sideshow." "Carnival, probably," Charley put in, knowing exactly what was coming.
Charley thought of the armless man in the Flea Museum, and decided slowly that no explanation would be good enough. People didn't stop to make small distinctions. Not in a sideshow. Not in a carnival. No. There was only one thing he could do; he saw that clearly. But it took him a long time to find the right words. At last he had them.
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