The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN - Pitbook.com
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN - Pitbook.com The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN - Pitbook.com
Harkness he heeled it after them, looking tolerable cheap. I could a stayed if I wanted to, but I didn't want to. I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it, because there ain't no telling how soon you are going to need it, away from home and amongst strangers that way. You can't be too careful. I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them. It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable, there must a been twenty of them, and every lady with a lovely complexion, and perfectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens, and dressed in clothes that cost millions of dollars, and just littered with diamonds. It was a powerful fine sight; I never see anything so lovely. And then one by one they got up and stood, and went a-weaving around the ring so gentle and wavy and graceful, the men looking ever so tall and airy and straight, with their heads bobbing and skimming along, away up there under the tent-roof, and every lady's rose-leafy dress flapping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.
And then faster and faster they went, all of them dancing, first one foot out in the air and then the other, the horses leaning more and more, and the ringmaster going round and round the center-pole, cracking his whip and shouting "Hi! hi!" and the clown cracking jokes behind him; and by and by all hands dropped the reins, and every lady put her knuckles on her hips and every gentleman folded his arms, and then how the horses did lean over and hump themselves! And so one after the other they all skipped off into the ring, and made the sweetest bow I ever see, and then scampered out, and everybody clapped their hands and went just about wild. Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people. The ringmaster couldn't ever say a word to him but he was back at him quick as a wink with the funniest things a body ever said; and how he ever could think of so many of them, and so sudden and so pat, was what I couldn't noway understand. Why, I couldn't a thought of them in a year. And by and by a drunk man tried to get into the ring, said he wanted to ride; said he could ride as well as anybody that ever was. They argued and tried to keep him out, but he wouldn't listen, and the whole show come to a standstill. Then the people begun to holler at him and make fun of him, and that made him mad, and he begun to rip and tear; so that stirred up the people, and a lot of men begun to pile down off of the benches and swarm towards the ring, saying, "Knock him
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Harkness he heeled it after them, looking tolerable cheap.<br />
I could a stayed if I wanted to, but I didn't want to. I<br />
went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the<br />
watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had<br />
my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I<br />
reckoned I better save it, because there ain't no telling how<br />
soon you are going to need it, away from home and<br />
amongst strangers that way.<br />
You can't be too careful. I ain't opposed to spending<br />
money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but<br />
there ain't no use in wasting it on them.<br />
It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight<br />
that ever was when they all <strong>com</strong>e riding in, two and two,<br />
a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their<br />
drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and<br />
resting their hands on their thighs easy and <strong>com</strong>fortable,<br />
there must a been twenty <strong>of</strong> them, and every lady with a<br />
lovely <strong>com</strong>plexion, and perfectly beautiful, and looking<br />
just like a gang <strong>of</strong> real sure-enough queens, and dressed<br />
in clothes that cost millions <strong>of</strong> dollars, and just littered<br />
with diamonds. It was a powerful fine sight; I never see<br />
anything so lovely. And then one by one they got up and<br />
stood, and went a-weaving around the ring so gentle and<br />
wavy and graceful, the men looking ever so tall and airy<br />
and straight, with their heads bobbing and skimming<br />
along, away up there under the tent-ro<strong>of</strong>, and every lady's<br />
rose-leafy dress flapping s<strong>of</strong>t and silky around her hips,<br />
and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.
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