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"You had better sit quiet there, my young miss, and get yourself together. One eighth of an inch nearer that bicycle trapeze in the wings and that smooth head of yours might not be so smooth right now." "I'm so ashamed." "I'll call a cab and take you home." "I'd rather you didn't trouble." "But I'd rather I did."
Up and up he went, swinging himself with lissome grace, raising each trapeze with the force of his swing until he could reach the one above it. He looked smaller as he travelled higher in his wonderful flying progress. The little boys had not breath left now even to say, 'Ay me, but he's grond. There was silence among all the crowd.
"Yes," cried Juliet, swallowing the persistent lump in her throat, "and now you've done it, you're ashamed of me!" "I didn't say so," he temporised. "You didn't have to. Don't you suppose I can see?" "Don't get so mad about it. She was laughing at you last night and so was the Doctor. They didn't think it was nice for you to put on your knickers and swing on the trapeze. Ladies don't do that."
"I left Jane Anna asleep in the hay in the corner of the loft. I'll go out and get her for you, Helen. You wait here." So Helen sat down in a chair in the dining room while Sue ran out to the barn to look for her doll. Mart and Lucile began practicing the song again. Now all this while Bunny Brown was swinging by his legs, upside downside on the trapeze.
His weight will be sufficient to keep it down straight." This was a splendid scheme, surely. Accordingly, the monkey, wondering what new form of teasing was about to be imposed upon him, was fastened about three feet from the bottom end of the ladder, and Grandpa and his strange trapeze was then slowly let down until all of the ladder had been paid out.
"Twenty dollars?" "Yes. Tell me how you fixed it." "Why," answered Murdock with a cruel laugh, "you was laid off as one of the Benares Brothers up at the show on account of drinking, wasn't you?" Daley moodily nodded his head. "They put on Thacher in your place. You and him are probably the only two men in the profession who can do the somersault trapeze act with old Benares.
Then he took it over to where an impromptu slack wire was strung between two posts, and set the monkey on this. The animal went through some evolutions that were so perfect an imitation of first-class human trapeze performance, that Andy was fairly astonished. "The people here give me great credit on that," announced Luke with happy eyes, as he put the monkey back in his cage.
Joe was not going into this without having thought carefully of it in advance, in spite of the short time it had taken him to make up his mind. He was used to doing that thinking and deciding quickly. The very nature of his calling made it necessary for him to do this. One does not have much time to make up one's mind when flying through the air from a high trapeze.
"They'll have to do as they do in theatres, and hang out the S.R.O. sign if it keeps on. It looks as though there would be standing room only before long, it certainly is starting the season good." "I'm glad to hear it," remarked Tonzo Lascalla, one of a trio of "brothers" with whom Joe Strong did more or less dangerous things on the high trapeze.
Men will spend endless time and pains, and devote concentration, persistence, self-denial, diligence, to learning how to play upon some instrument, how to swing upon a trapeze, how to twist themselves into abnormal contortions.
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