The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-03-29

4 Dcoepeion Wlth oeeious 1eeulep.

''No, In. net native Of any placs In
particular although I've bee0 In Amer.
10, and most oehee parts, for that mat
to; aud I'd like 70 get hack there
great place for c3rcu9es n America.
Can charge more admission and 1Q .
canvass better than any other country
In the world. Spain h the Won't. II
you ever gee into the CIRCUS business
keep clear Of SPAIN" promised to Ne
meinbeF his caution, but asked for fur.
ther explanations. He again shifted
knees, and went On In IN even, unae-
cented tone, to relate about Lis accident
- he termed It. ''You zee, Zswdust'e
gTsot circus went through France and
spain . year Or Two since, and I joined.
Prizes are not good ON the continent,
and some Of ~ had 70 double nr treble
In some ceees. I was Signor a.
mora, the pad rider. at one dine, and
Mons. Gaillard, the bareback rider, 1t
another, and again, - the Agile Amer.
lean, I turned . double sOmersault
overas many horses and mules - old
Zawdust could collect Az 6ignor T.
mora wore side-whiskofs and . regular
6panish costume, and - Mons. 0aiilard
l had . big waxed mouetache and
goatee, and nobody could tell that the
same pefson,was both riders. A. the
Agile American. I appeared - l do
now, Of course, for false WhiskeD are
apt to come OF when person h throw
Ing himself around. A person doesn't
need to double In this way in big sho ~,
and that's Why want to get into single
line business. One has to work too
hard, and it's
TOO Trying ON THE CONSTITUTION.
It's about % bad - the living skeleton
line. We pat up our tents In town In
the mountains near the boundary BE-
tween Spain and France, and that night
We had about - many Frenchmen ~
Spani .rds in the canvas. Old Zewdust
himself was ringmaster, and he could
talk half . dozen languages; 50 he al
WAYS introduced the artists In both
spanish and French"
"How did the clown get along with
his old Jokes in that mix-up:"
''Oh, they didn't care for any refined
humor, they didn't. The clown did
nothing but hop around and trip and
make faces and howl and get cut with
the whip. Once I didn't notice him,
and let fly some tobacco juice. 1t hit
him square in the eyes and. nearly
blinded him. This pleased the audi
ence so much that they went nearly
Wild over It, and Zawduxt put it down
in the programme after that {; hut he had
to raise the clowns wages two shilliugs
4 weeks for It. 1t was
VERY POPULAR.
That's the sort of wit them Spaniards
like. We'll, that night when Signor ~
~~.>>~ -. tim 2n~ n L. r6l.s mil, dad
dreadfully, and Mons. Gaillard showed
himself after the cannon ball mans
turn-the French applauded and some
Of the Spaniards Missed. This made the
Frenchmen mad, as they said they
didn't hiss the SignOr and wanted fair
show for the French rider. Old Zaw-
duet did his hest to calm the row In two
languages, but it looked as If there was
going to be y free fight. At last q tai!
Englishman ars,se and held up his hand
and somehow his quiet, cool way did
more to settle things than all Zawduzt's
shouting. When everything was quiet
the Engiishman said-n"w speaking In
French and then saying the same In
Spanish that SignOr ZamOra and Mons
GailIard should both come on together,
and that each could Ike cheered or hisset'
a. the crowd might like; and then he
81 id to the ringmaster in English that
in that way it would lie impossible t(
tell what they were Kissing or cheering
ut. and thus there could Ike no row
The Englishnlan seemed to wonder
wl,v old ZSwduzt would hesitate, for he
never guessed that Monsieur and Signol
were
VllE "A MI PERSON.
But ut last Zawduzt consented, and
there was y big shout. He came into
the dressing-room, leaving the mar
with the trick dogs to amtlse the crowd
and he told me to keep ON my French
man clothes, and he quickly helped tn
cannon-ball man on with the stde-whis
kers and Spanish toys. SO soon as tn
docs were done he put the canMon-Dal
man on the padded horse, and ! came
out on the bareback one. There was .
big veil a. we came out. l took the out
side Of the ring and the sannon-bal
man kent inside, 80 they wouldn't Ike *
ant to notice him. Well-we all have ou'
peciait;e~-you have yours and ! have
mine. and u camnon-l,all man hahn
much ,,ae for a pad. He seemed afrnit
to .trnighten himself up, AMI tn
Frrnch,nan hogan laughing and point
ing at him, and the Slmniartls r'nret
out nil sorts Of talk nOsxnly could under
stand. Old Zawtluzt was wild. ':>taht
mr. he hiss&si through his set teeth ,an'
the moor cannOn-lslll man went to stant
n a a liz