The way the freaks just doted on me would have turned the heads of most boys, but when I found out that all of them, from the fat woman and the bearded woman, to the trapeze performers, ate onions three times a day, I said: "Nay, nay, Hennery will camp with the animals, whose smell is natural, and not acquired.

The woman riders are the worst to wear rubber boots, 'cause they fall down in the mud and spoil their dresses and kick scandalous, The trapeze performers have to be carried out of the dressing room on stretchers, and hoisted up to the net, 'cause they can't do stunts up on the trapeze with wet feet, and we have worked ourselves to death getting things in shape.

The woman riders are the worst to wear rubber boots, 'cause they fall down in the mud and spoil their dresses and kick scandalous, The trapeze performers have to be carried out of the dressing room on stretchers, and hoisted up to the net, 'cause they can't do stunts up on the trapeze with wet feet, and we have worked ourselves to death getting things in shape.

"Talk to me about your trapeze acts, and your parachute drops, I guess I know all the sensations.

Then came the athletes and the jugglers, the tight-rope walkers and the trapeze performers, the trained dogs and horses, the clowns and the monkeys, the riding and the races; all of it too wonderful, too mirthful, too complete to be adequately described.

And in the second book is related, under the title, "Joe Strong on the Trapeze; Or, the Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer," what happened to our hero under canvas.

Joe became an expert on the trapeze, and, later, when Benny Turton was temporarily in a hospital, Joe "took on" the tank trick.

I'm going back to some of my high trapeze work.

The big swing was a trapeze act performed on the highest of the circus apparatus.

Midway between the platforms, which were just large enough for a man to stand on, was a trapeze with long ropes, capable of being swung from one resting place to the other.

" Joe's act, which he had often done, but which of late had been performed by a man billed as "Wogand," was to stand on one platform, have the long trapeze started in a long, pendulumlike swing by an attendant, and then to leap down, catch hold of the bar with his hands, and swing up to the other platform.

He missed the trapeze, toppled into the net, and, by some chance, did not land properly.

But now that he did a trapeze act, as well as working the sleight-of-hand mysteries, his time was pretty well occupied.

So, while the parade was being gotten ready, Joe went inside the main top, which by this time was erected, to see about having his platforms and trapeze put in place.

And he liked the sensation when he leaped from one platform toward the swinging trapeze bar, aiming to grasp it in his hands and swing in a great arc to the other little elevated place, close under the top of the tent.

The real danger was in the long trapeze.

"Now for the other and the trapeze.

" The next act of the young circus performer was to climb up to the very top of the tent, and there to examine the fastenings of the trapeze ropes.

He was a little too talkative for a man to give his whole attention to fastening a trapeze.

Don't go on with this high trapeze act!"

When I had reached the trapeze, he said, as cool as if he were calling the figures for a Virginia reel, "Support them, youLoper.

Colette Willy works in a squirrel's cage, or performs upon trapeze and flying rings, and can reach with her toe the nape of her neck.

LOWERY, E. L. The man on the flying trapeze.

The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze; a book of pieces with drawings by the author.

The corpse on the flying trapeze.