. Toby Tyler : or, Ten weeks with a circus . performance by riding twice around the ringside by side, standing on their horses, each one with a handon the others shoulder. All this was successfully accomplished without a singleerror, and when they rode out of the ring the applause wasso great as to leave no doubt but that they would be recall-ed, and thus earn the promised money. In fact, they had hardly got inside the curtain when oneof the attendants called to them, and before they had timeeven to speak to each other they were in the ring again, re-peating the last portion of their act. When
. Toby Tyler : or, Ten weeks with a circus . performance by riding twice around the ringside by side, standing on their horses, each one with a handon the others shoulder. All this was successfully accomplished without a singleerror, and when they rode out of the ring the applause wasso great as to leave no doubt but that they would be recall-ed, and thus earn the promised money. In fact, they had hardly got inside the curtain when oneof the attendants called to them, and before they had timeeven to speak to each other they were in the ring again, re-peating the last portion of their act. When they came out of the ring for the second timethey found Old Ben, the skeleton, the fat lady, and Lord waiting to welcome them; but before any onecould say a word Ella had stood on tiptoe again and givenToby just such another kiss as she did when he told herthat he would surely stay long enough to appear in the ringwith her once. Thats because you rode so well and helped me somuch, she said, as she saw Tobys cheeks growing a fiery. MADEMOISELLE JEANNETTE AND MONSIEUR AJAX. Ten Weeks with a Circus. 207 red; and then she turned to those who were waiting togreet her. Mrs. Treat took her in her enormous arms, and having o kissed her, put her down quickly, and clasped Toby as ifhe had been a very small walnut and her arms a very largepair of nut-crackers. Bless the boy! she exclaimed, as she kissed him againand again with an energy and force that made her kissessound like the crack of the whip, and caused the horses tostamp in affright. I knew hed amount to something oneof these days, an Samuel an I had to come out, when busi-ness was dull, just to see how he got along. It was some time before she would unloose him from hermotherly embrace, and when she did the skeleton graspedhim by the hand, and said, in the most pompous and af-fected manner, Mr. Tyler, were proud of you, and when we saw thatcostume of yours, that my Lilly embroidered with her ownhands, wre was both proud
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