This extends even to the canvasmenand roustabouts.
Phil stood near the entrance, the flap of which had been quickly laced and staked down when the canvasmen saw the gale coming upon them.
Their long train reached the place at three o'clock in the morning, drew up on a side-track near the circus-grounds, and the canvasmen were gruffly ordered out of their bunks to go to work.
They had joined the force of canvasmen of the circus and menagerie at Newark, gone with the organization to California, and were now in the mountains of Georgia, where the company was billed to exhibit and perform at the town of Carlin.
The clean white plates and dishes appealed to him by contrast to the scratched and dented tin ones the canvasmen had been obliged to use.
If you show your face here again I'll set the canvasmen on you!
At a rough guess, I should say a hundred and fifty including canvasmen and other labor help.
These were instantly placed in the hands of performers and canvasmen who knew how to wield them, and the result was a terrific hand-to-hand encounter in which we came off victorious.
By putting on this bold front the canvasmen were able to get all the loose stuff into the wagons, leaving the tents standing until the last.
Groups of canvasmennow began to tear down the animal tent--the "menagerie," as it has always been known to the man who pays admission.
Now they began to encounter straggling, envious atoms of the populace, wanderers who could not produce the admission fee and who were not permitted by the rough canvasmen to venture inside the charmed circle laid down by the "guy-ropes.
I don't mind tellin' of it to you, as a consolation, that there is two real murderers among the canvasmen and a dozen or more pussons which are wanted for desp'rit things.
The riot happened in one of the hill towns along the river, and was due to the ugly humor of the unpaid canvasmen and the roustabouts who went searching for trouble as an outlet for their feelings.
Don't you know you might 'ave got clubbed to death by one of the canvasmen out there?
Now you sure can't think any of those circus canvasmen would take the trouble to follow us?
Boys, I'm going to snap that offer up, because you see, my canvasmen are pretty nigh done up, having so little sleep.
On the back of one of the elephants rode the fat lady, with a banner which explained that because of a strike of the canvasmen the usual street exhibition could not be given.
It was true that a number of canvasmen had been allowed to go because they were found useless, but none of the circus men believed that these individuals would do so desperate a deed as to try to wreck the train.
We men performers will turn canvasmen for the time being.
I wouldn't mind giving it to them if I could afford it, or if they weren't getting the same wages that are paid other canvasmen in other circuses.
For a while the striking canvasmen stood and laughed at the efforts of those who were taking their places.
Led by Joe, the performers placed themselves under the direction of some veteran canvasmen who had been working in other departments of the circus.
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