"We'll try you on the high trapeze in the triple act, some time.

He's the fellow who cut the trapeze on Benares Brothers last night.

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.

At a certain signal I was to let the rope go, and George, springing from the trapeze across the full width of the dome, was to catch it in mid-air, a hundred feet above the heads of the people.

Looking up then, I saw those miserable Slingsbys hanging on to the trapeze for life.

Well, the minute Thacher lands on the centre trapeze to-night down he goes forty feet head-first.