And all the rest of 'em in the circus worried and laughed at me; and, in short, I give in at last against my conscience, but I couldn't help it.
"I made a bargain, though, that she should only be trusted to the steadiest, soberest man, and the best rider of the whole lot.

They called him 'Muley' in the bills, and stained his face to make him look like a Turk, or something of that sort; but his real name was Francis Yapp, and a very good fatherly sort of man he was in his way, having a family of his own to look after.

He used to ride splendid, at full straddle, with three horses under him--one foot, you know, sir, being on the outer horse's back, and one foot on the inner.

Him and Jubber made it out together that he was to act a wild man, flying for his life across some desert, with his only child, and poor little Mary was to be the child.

They darkened her face to look like his; and put an outlandish kind of white dress on her; and buckled a red belt round her waist, with a sort of handle in it for Yapp to hold her by.