. Theatrical and circus life;. in under thecloth and make his way up through the seats. Hehas been told that if he is caught at such a trick theshowmen will drag him to the dressing-tent and fillhis hair full of powdered sawdust. The canvas-menare, however, viglilant; besides that, they are lazyand do not care to move around, so the small boymust be content to throw handsprings in the sawdust-sprinkled lot, and keep on hoping until the show isout. In this respect the minute boy does not betraythe same shrewdness credited to a Baltimore was on a visit to her brothers rauche near Austin
. Theatrical and circus life;. in under thecloth and make his way up through the seats. Hehas been told that if he is caught at such a trick theshowmen will drag him to the dressing-tent and fillhis hair full of powdered sawdust. The canvas-menare, however, viglilant; besides that, they are lazyand do not care to move around, so the small boymust be content to throw handsprings in the sawdust-sprinkled lot, and keep on hoping until the show isout. In this respect the minute boy does not betraythe same shrewdness credited to a Baltimore was on a visit to her brothers rauche near Austin,Texas, when a small circus came along. It is con-sidered the acme of honesty to beat the circus inthat region — in fact, paying is heartily only a month in the place, the Baltimorebelle was thoroughly imbued with the cowboy spirit,(522) UNDER THE CANVAS. 523 in as far as beating the circus was concerned, andwhen the show pitched its tents she made up her mindas to what she was going to do. At night, when. %haM\ 8f * ccbeating the circus the show was under headway, she calmly approachedthe circus tent on stilts, and viewed the first half 524 ONDEB THE CANVAS. of the performance through the opening between the canvas and the roof. One of the lighters of the showdetecting something wrong, crept around with a clubto •smash the intruder, but received a kick in theeye from the fair stilt performer, and was so takenaback that the cowboys had time to rally to her sup-port and raid tin* show while she at a safe distanceapplauded the conquering herders. The troupe lefttown that night in a sadly damaged condition. Until late years circuses generally gave a balloonascension before the afternoon performance tookplace, and sometimes a slack-wire performance wasadded. The latter free exhibition dropped out of sighta short time ago, and since 1876 there have been fewcircus balloon ascensions ; they have been abandoned(Mi account, of the danger and frequency of acci-den
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