He has been told that if he is caught at such a trick the showmen will drag him to the dressing-tent and fill his hair full of powdered sawdust.
Harrison knew, or pretended he did, all the showmen of the day, he would discuss them for hours while Alfred sat in open-mouthed wonder.
There was one feature Alfred studied over greatly--Harrison's acquaintance with all noted showmen was brought about in nearly every instance by Harrison having assisted them financially at some time.
But she will not keep it long, for she is known to all the showmen in the world, who come from time to time to see if she has anything new.
One day some travelling showmen heard about the frightful creature, and asked to see it, so that if it pleased them they might take it away.
No breed or variety of dog has suffered more from the injudicious fads and crazes of those showmen who are not sportsmen also.
Perhaps he gazed with longing eyes at its vanishing glories, for some of the showmen were packing up in disgust, but he reached the vicarage quickly.
The sovereign was handed over with apparent good will, both showmen realizing that it might be money well spent.
Jim Bates was no coward, but he was faced with the alternative of yielding gracefully and watching the showmen at work or risking a defeat in a needless battle.
Of course they had had tumbles, as all showmen do, but somehow they managed to come off with whole skins.
All was confusion at the point on which the two showmen had focused their eyes.
The two showmen finally gave up their quest, and all at once started on a run in the opposite direction.
The showmen raised their eyes when the old man and his young companion were close upon them, and pausing in their work, returned their looks of curiosity.
The showmen had, in fact, got it into their heads that the two wayfarers were not common people, but runaways for whom a reward must even now be posted in London.
Scattered upon the ground were the other members of the play, in various stages of repair; while the two showmen were engaged with glue, hammer, and tacks, in putting their proper parts more strongly together.
The next morning she met the showmen at breakfast.
Certainly, there is no difference in the side-showmen or the people from whom he earns his living.
The mass commenced melting away at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and the grounds were entirely deserted, except by the showmen and those who have money to make during the entire racing season.
Oh, Phil, you are the sort from which great showmen are made!
Phil observed three or four showmen standing near him on the other side.
Jaselki means a manger; and because these travelling showmen give scenes from the life of Christ they are called jaselki, or manger-men.
Bluers are paid a shilling a day by each of the showmen having stands at a fair, and manage to make a very decent living, following the shows round from place to place all over the country, and from year’s end to year’s end.
Hastings and Wayman, now well-known travelling showmenin Wales.
I was also struck with my first view of a cobra and mongoose fight, arranged for our delectation by one of the many showmen fakirs who abound there.
All the shows emptied, the roundabouts stopped, the cocoanut shies were deserted, and everybody, showmen and public alike, came surging round my tent.
We have not space in this paper to name or describe the numerous street shows and showmen who are supposed to be interested mainly in entertaining children; though in reality adults form a part, often the major part, of their audiences.
On a festival day, the toy-sellers and itinerant showmen throng with their most attractive wares or sights in front of the shrine or temple.
Special trains run from numerous places, and all the showmen in the country seem to have hurried up for the event.
The showmen know best, they are in touch with popular sentiment; and be sure that if you scraped off Lord Roberts, you would find the face of Lord Wolseley there.
July 30, from a correspondent, will best convey the idea of the great interest and enthusiasm there manifested by the people: “The business in Maine has been immense, contrary to the predictions of showmen generally.
Upon coming out, a whole bevy of showmen from that and neighboring vans surrounded me, and began descanting on the merits and demerits of General Tom Thumb.
I was not long in despatching an efficient agent to Manchester, and in overcoming the competition with other showmen who were equally eager to secure this extraordinary pigmy.
Several showmen had made them very liberal offers, but they had set their hearts on having “Barnum” bring him out and present him to the public.
The inimitable Hogarth made the light of his peculiar genius shine upon them, and the memories of the old showmen are preserved in more than one of his pictures.
The story of the old London fairs has not been told before, and that of the almost extinct race of the old showmen is so inextricably interwoven with it that the most convenient way of telling either was to tell both.
During the latter half of the last century, the showmen seldom advertised in the newspapers, and few of their bills have been preserved.
The picture which he gives was evidently drawn from his knowledge of the Richardsonian era, which he endeavoured to make fit into the Bartholomew Fair experiences of the very different showmen of the reign of George II.
The old showmen are now virtually extinct, and the London fairs have all ceased to exist.
Shows had been excluded from Greenwich Fair this year, and Bartholomew's was looked forward to by the showmen as the more likely on that account to yield an abundant harvest.
The decline which showmenhad noted during the preceding years had not been perceptible to the public, who had crowded the London fairs more densely than ever, and found as many showmen catering for their entertainment as in earlier years.
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