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Updated: May 8, 2025
The big bag was getting smaller and seemed to be descending, while the man on the trapeze was hanging downward by his hands to get as far as possible away from the terrible heat. "Jump! Jump!" cried Mr. Swift, leaping to his feet and motioning to the man on the trapeze of the balloon. But it is doubtful whether or not the performer heard him.
He was good to the poor supes, and instructed them, not at all sneeringly, how best to manage the guy ropes for the nets when the trapeze events began. There was, in fact, an air of pleasing domesticity diffused over the whole circus.
We showed her all our fishing rods, and let her help us make fudges, and we did stunts for her on the trapeze in the attic, and Romie told her she could have any one of our dogs, but she said she didn't want it, and she wouldn't stay to supper. I guess she thought I couldn't cook just because she can't.
Men with their fists clenched on their breasts, and their neatly slippered toes touching the backs of their heads, crashed through paper-covered hoops beneath which horses madly coursed; they flew through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young men on the flying; trapeze, or they posed in living pyramids.
Van Twiller had actually been very deeply interested not in an actress, for the legitimate drama was not her humble walk in life, but in Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski, whose really perilous feats on the trapeze had astonished New York the year before, though they had failed to attract Delaney and me the night we wandered into the up-town theatre on the trail of Van Twiller's mystery.
Joe's act, which he had often done, but which of late had been performed by a man billed as "Wogand," was to stand on one platform, have the long trapeze started in a long, pendulumlike swing by an attendant, and then to leap down, catch hold of the bar with his hands, and swing up to the other platform.
There are several feet between it and the water." Vardri's eyes had never moved from the girl's face. He knew that her heart was affected, and she had told him once that she would never attempt to go on the tight-rope or trapeze because the mere thought of a height always terrified her.
She said she couldn't have me messing around that way, I blame her as much as anybody that I am not now a competent performer on the trapeze. I don't know that I had better go into details about the state of mind boys are in from the time the bills are first put up until after the circus has actually departed.
I have all this time to myself between now and the evening performance. Why waste it sitting around with the dog and trapeze acts?" "Where do you live?" "West Forty-fourth Street, near Eighth." "Where?" "West Forty-fourth Street." "Hm-m-m!" he said, with a new easiness of manner that alarmed her. "Selfish little girl. All this time to yourself." "You would be surprised how it flies."
The hired girl told Ma there was three tramps out on the sidewalk fighting Pa, and Ma she took the broom and started to help Pa, and I tried to stop Ma, 'cause her constitution is not very strong and I didn't want her to do any flying trapeze bizness, but I couldn't stop her, and she went out with the broom and a towel tied around her head.
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