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"I may as well get up or you'll cause a riot of noise," answered Barbara, querulously. "Of course I will. I slept so well that I could dance on a trapeze just now. How did you sleep?" "Why what does it matter to you?" countered Barbara peevishly. "Matter? Why, that bed removes one of the obstacles to your remaining here," laughed Eleanor, triumphantly.
They couldn't help themselves, and neither could I. Emperor took me in whether I would or not; and, in fact, I didn't know I was going till I was halfway there." Phil's companion surveyed him with admiration. "My, but you did cut a figure up on that elephant's head! I should have been afraid." "There was nothing to be afraid of. But let's watch the performance. There's a trapeze act going on now."
"Let's see the striped calf!" begged the three boys. "No, we've got to practise for the circus," Bunny insisted. "Now I'll do my trapeze act," and he climbed up to the bar that hung by the long ropes from the beam in the barn. "I want to do a trapeze act, too!" cried Tom White. "Say, we can't all do the same thing!" Bunny said. "That isn't like a real circus. It's got to be different acts."
Well it went off very fine. The big parade was over, and the men were doing acts on the trapeze, and the trained seals were playing ball with their noses, and the clowns were cutting up funny capers. And all at once a man, with a shiny hat on, came out in the middle of the ring, and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to call your attention to our jumping dog, Nero.
Soon climbing meant trapeze work long reach of arm, and pull of weight, high step of foot, and spring of body. Where I had slid down with ease, I had to strain and raise myself by sheer muscle. I wore my left glove to tatters and threw it away to put the right one on my left hand. I thought many times I could not make another move; I thought my lungs would burst, but I kept on.
"Can you go into the tank again to-night?" "I guess so. You'll have to fill in part of my trapeze work though." "Well, I can do that more easily than I can get some one to work the tank act. It's lucky you practised that." "It was luck nothing else. Well, I'll do the best I can. I'm going to see Benny to-morrow, and there may be a change for the better." "I hope there is.
This especially pleased Her Majesty and she insisted on the performance being repeated several times. Another item of interest was the trapeze act. Of course nobody present with the exception of my mother, sister and myself had ever seen a circus performance before, and Her Majesty was very much afraid that the man would fall from the trapeze and kill himself.
'Ay me, but he's grond'; and all the rest of the townsfolk said the same to themselves or each other, but they expressed it in all the different ways of that dignified caution common to the Scotch. There was a series of swings, one trapeze fixed higher than another, like a line of gigantic steps, to the very pinnacle of the tent.
"Jule," said Romeo, sternly, "I don't see what's the matter with you lately. You act like a sissy girl. Go up into the attic and work on the trapeze for an hour or two, and you'll feel better. It wouldn't surprise me now if you got so sissy that you were afraid of mice and snakes." Juliet's anger rose to the point of tears. "I'm not afraid of mice," she sobbed, "and you know it.
Then, exerting the muscles of the back, the suspended insect raises itself and fixes the talons of the anterior limbs in the empty skin above it. Never did acrobat, hanging by the toes to the bar of a trapeze, raise himself with so stupendous a display of strength in the loins. This gymnastic feat accomplished, the rest is easy.
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