. Six and one abroad. hear the shrieks of the women and the groans and criesof the men and women and the smothered snarl of the beasts astheir throats are choked; and while the speaker does not go thatfar into the details, we know that as a part of the ghastly after-math, the ground is crimson and the beasts, still unappeased,are licking the trickling rills of blood. Glutted and docile, the animals are driven from the arena,and attendants lay a layer of sand, while issuing from in-genious jets disposed about the amphitheater sprays of per-fumes and disinfectants offset the odors of th
. Six and one abroad. hear the shrieks of the women and the groans and criesof the men and women and the smothered snarl of the beasts astheir throats are choked; and while the speaker does not go thatfar into the details, we know that as a part of the ghastly after-math, the ground is crimson and the beasts, still unappeased,are licking the trickling rills of blood. Glutted and docile, the animals are driven from the arena,and attendants lay a layer of sand, while issuing from in-genious jets disposed about the amphitheater sprays of per-fumes and disinfectants offset the odors of the hideous car-nage. And the better to dissipate them, the awnings over-spreading the multitude, are agitated by mechanical devices. The bones and bloody matted heads of hair and crimson ragsand remnants of mangled flesh are dumped outside in thespoliarum, and the audience begins to buzz into tete-a-tetes,louder and louder growing until the clamor becomes an up-roarious demand for the next scene. 214 Six and One Abroad. Tlic by Moonlight 215 Look! The doors of portals splendid then, gloomy, gapingholes now, are opened and the gladiators reappear in the ring,this time in chariots drawn by the best stallions of the they salute the emperor with the cry heard throughoutthe vast interior: Caesar morituri te salutant. Each car-ries a short sword and a shield; powerful fellows they are,nurtured and bred in the forests of the Rhone and of theDanube and the Rhine. Alighting with vigorous step, the carsand steeds are hurried out by attendants, a trumpet is sounded,and they enter the lists of mortal combat, amid excited huzzasthat are heard in the Alban hills and beyond the Tiber. Suchfencing, such clanging of shields under the strokes of steel,was never seen before nor since. Every expert thrust, everydeft defense is noted by the assembly and approved with ap-plause. But now a shield is shivered and falls, and a duelistsinks with a fatal wound, and as his head dro
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