The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-03

full man to manager; for, If 1 warn't {
star, l never missed my tip. / could al
ways be sure OF an engagement, and
lpretty good salary; and what followed
Why, what always follows-why, mus
take fancy to one of our lady riders a
Panganais' Classical Cirque National
and get married.
they fall in love, do it by taking fancy
to face. Well, that's natural, p'r'aps
but l didn't for l took a fancy to my
wile's way Of doing the scarf trick OIL
horseback. l dare say you know what
mean-when they make bit of muslii
fl at over them, and all that sort of thing
| Well, it struck me one day as the cir
who was so clever at that, and was al
ways quiet at rehearsing, and mover
stood any chatting, could be- clever al
other things; and l said to myself
"That's settler; if she'll have me III
have She" And very next night, when
| dianS-a piece on two horses you know
that we'd done dozens of times before in
quiet, business way-Pd got 10 gallon
alter her horse while she was pretending
| TO flee from me, and me OF course done
up in style with feathers and so on.
Then, when her horse was SO swift
could not ketch her, 1 makes lot OF
| dumb motions, and SHES my tOmahawk
at her horse, which begins to halt and
| then limp, when l close up and pass my
arm round her and bring her ON to my
horse, she pretending to resist; aud us
she stands going around backwards, she
hangs away us hold her.
Well, being very pretty thing, II 1t is
well done, people was all very attentive
that nIght-the one that came after Pd
make up my mind-and we'd got to the
part where I'd killed her horse, and it
| was lying in the middle OF the ring,
when, the music playing so that no one
! could hear what said, l says:
"Mary, dear''-her namo on the bill
was Mademoiselle Marioni-'sMary,
DEAR" says, snake the real"
"What" says she.
"Lers make the real," says; and then,
out loud, "On horseW
Don't talk nonsense" she says. "Put
your arm little more round my waist,
Pm slippingw
81 was just going to, darling" l says.
"You sha'n't slip; FL support YOU"
All this time Of course she was hanging
| away from me, as if in rage Of fear; but
when said, "l'll support YOU" she hall
laughed, and said:
"You wouldn't like to; eat so much"
s'Try me-" said; "Pm in earnest, and
l mean it. Mind your balance"
"Don't, please" she says then, and ]
quite started to hear how pititully she
| spoke.
"Well, I won't DEAR" 1 says; "only
let's make it real"
"Well," she says saucily, 81 will make
| it real"
And she hung away from me fercer
than ever, just like wild Indian maid,
wv n nIa MI
she did make it real, tor l found the
tongue to say so much that the piece was
acted real right through, and when at
last it came to her coming round ana
resting her arm on my shoulder, and me
with my arm round her waist holding her
right up, and all the time flourishing my
bow in the other, while the horse went
as hard as he could, lelt SO happy and
SO satified with one word that mad never
been said to me before, that finished the
piece off with what mean to say was a
real touch OF nature. drew her little
closer to me and kissed her, regularly
bringing down the house.
AS we went of, there was Mary's
| father, who did the sword trick and the
rings; Fo-tO Limo his name was in the
bill, because he was a Chinese in the
profession, though we always called him
by his proper name, Bodger Dodd. Well
there was Mary's father waiting with
shawl and her geloshes; and he says to
me, very fierce
"You're nation fast, Tom French. ]
never see that last bit in the "Flying In.
dians' afore." ..
"No more didn't I, old man." says,
slapping him on the shoulder; "but we're
| a-going to make it real."
The old man and had it over that
n u uht-nyar como OyGfnrs-anI Mary w a 9
there, looking as blushing and sweet as
| girl could look; and month alter, sir
| we made it real, very much to our man.
| ager's disgust; for wouldn't let Mary
| 20 into the ring any more alter putting
her finger into the little one bought her
We were very happy for SIX years, all
the time could be ut home; and then
alter months trip, got back one day
| to find her old father there, for he'd join.
ed another troupe, and the old chap had
got the news before did, and he shook
hands with me, and then broke down
crying like child.
But couldn't cry; couldn't believe
it; 1 couldn't think that it was real as all
this-that she was gone-gone for ever
1t seemed something l couldn't under
again as she was dead, and had been put
in the cold ground two days before.
| At last, though, it seemed to come
home to me, ana sat there, l think, fol
three days, doing nothing hardly but look
at the three little ones that were left me
But at the end Of those three days my
manager came to hunt me up, and tooE
me back with him; and he always was o
trump to me, though l was never the
same man again; while p'r'aps it was al
for the best that poor Mary went, for II
saved her many heartache, and no enc
| OF poverty.
! 1t was about year after she died thai
| 1 was doing clown for the trip, making
faces and saying the same funny things
over and over again, night after night
while l was doing half dozen summer
sets running, l put one loot on piece o.
orange peel.
can't tell you any more about it, sir
only left that town a cripple. l get soft
if think about it, for Pm afraid I was
very proud of what was as a man.
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