S and se like ive kisses, and endured times Emma toucly ed lips. Lizzie ook cly folded it up on its fingers and gave o her.
quot;Gratuity,quot; in and nipped raig t and, after a moments t, stumped off after till, secret edges of to .
But notention to t even ely fat for ays, but for black cotton stockings ers tes on t for a majestic of black leg, but ly and Lizzie scuttled unseen after, casting an inquisitive back ed smack and sank down on hing unseen moaned.
tall as Lizzie tle drummer-boy, somersaulted -- ly across ttering to time to see t, alt se rigo o then he was gone.
Dont tened t frightens easily.
t tent, not triped tent, but anotent, ent; it up inside like a Cern and glo last o unfasten and inside. so muctempt to close up after o be in as great a umbling d as soon as s here.
Feet of customers , ent s see o see , mixed ter around range cries t did not come from s, so s track.
S could be seen: a young couple, arm in arm, icks doeps of size, a man, a o a baby of indeterminate sex in t, but took account of.
tenc on all time, a roaring as if teeth.
S skirts and trousers and scratcil sanding beside t brotaircase family at t of t still s see tiger, even if sood on tiptoe, sed a any clotside only t and stockings, and some foliage, ars. taircase family clean and respectable-looking, altire family possessed t pale, peculiar look ceristic of tives. training upwards.
quot; Veux-tu voir le grand c, ma petite?quot;
Lizzie did not understand as her son heaved Lizzie up in his arms for a good look.
quot;Les poux. . .quot; s her son paid her no heed.
quot;Voilà, ma petite!quot;
tiger an t burned. It burned so brigs tail, tc tip. tride of tiger; its eyes like yellos round, innocent, toy-like ears; tiff ificial look; t noise came. It rareh bloody bones.
tiger kept its ing of old. All its motion s back, if it il it rolled over to ts ense muscles keened and sang. It reacself in one liquid motion; notiful ts ed nerves. Upon its pelt it bore t of t lived.
t igo, but stop ctle fingers and ried but dislodge tiger stopped in its track s mysterious patrol and looked at eyes of Neered , mineral eyes of tiger.
It seemed to Lizzie t time, tiger and herself.
trange e beast fell to tle c lead it to eat meat. But only quot;as ifquot;. All knelt. A crackle of sent; tiger ing out of cer.
Its mind remained, o itself. e did not kno hinking. how could we?
It stopped roaring. Instead it started to emit a rattling purr. time somersaulted. Space diminiso ttractive force betiger. All t existed in tiger.
t came too ring by t tell you iger, nor it forced it to come to s knees, like a penitent. It dragged its pale belly across ty straotle soft creature s folloine lengts ceaselessly tcail.
ts nose and it buzzed and rumbled and took t idea .
t scared and pummelled tle fists, but s let go a grip as tig of the newborn.
Crack! the spell broke.
to the ring.
A lasigers carnivorous o t did not ool. s, a brig frogged all . A dervised ool, leaped and t ballet of mimic ferocity, taming of tiger, to wamer gave no co fig all.
t cat unpeeled its eyes off Lizzies in a trice, rose up on its ed at ts at a piece of paper dangled from a string. It batted at tamer s enormous pa tinued to confuse, irritate and torment it and, ing, ted baying of t, ual custom, a lifetimes training, tiger o an obscure corner of tage, to cower, ws flanks ure of ion.
Lizzie let go of tains and all, to ector for comfort. So ts by ttack of trainer upon tiger and s he surface.
tamer gave emptuous ripple around made it sink its ed foot on tigers skull and cleared for speeciger even more so, because he was a man.
quot;Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, tiger kno alive-oo Boston from its native jungle but t mont time, no my imperious command, offers you a perfect imitation of docility and obedience. But do not let te deceive you. Brute it e it remains. Not for not receive t of Scourge for, in its native at, it t nots breakfast and follo;
A pleasing singled the crowd.
quot;tiger,quot; and t ingly ;is table incarnation of blood lust and fury; in a single instant, it can turn from furry quiescence into th-dealing fury.
quot;tiger is ts revenge.quot;
O meepost as Lizzie passed by; ment!
to a confidential e, suc beall, alted suc mastery, not a single person in tent would he had been drinking.
quot; is ture of t and Man? Let me tell you. It is fear. Fear! Not fear. Do you knos? long, every nigers, impossible to close our eyes for brooding on tal beast rike?
quot;Dont t bleed, or t t of scars, scar upon scar. I o be once more broken open. No skin of mine t is not scar tissue. And I am alime in t -- t, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, you see before you a man in tal fear.
quot;error of my life.
quot;At t I am in t deatrap.quot;
trical pause.
quot;But,quot; and igers nose ock, so t it , quot;but. . .quot; and Lizzie sa frog rousers s a little, quot;. . . but Im not e as it is of me!quot;
he showed his red maw in a laugh.
quot;For I bring to bear upon its killer instinct a rational mans knoool, are instruments of bluff e s, I abliss you migop dog, because I kno all time t to kill me, t is t, t is tention. . . but as for t dont kno;
As if enced by tion, loud again, but by noiger, pered blo a clear and incontrovertible message of disaffection and, s sculptured a, caugoppled over. And tiger illness, of lines, but a whe air. On him.
tely bayed.
But tamer, ances, uncanny py, bounced backool o tigers jaiger roying tc tamer leaped, unscat hurrahs.
Lizzies stunned little face tled all over of tent, enment.
to see t of tupendous cat act, to buy anoticket for top, besides ticket for t ant on to do t, in spite of t soon got bored ciger splintering tool, and drifted off.
quot;Eite,quot; said o , singsong, crooning voice. quot;tu as vu la bête! La bête du cauc;
t peacefully t noo stir and mumble. Its moth her elbow.
quot;On va, Papa?quot;
t pink lips do; sruggled furiously and sed to be put do, out of and silence; ent oer in all Fall River.
quot;ell, if it aint Andretle girl! are ttle Lizzie Borden?quot;