After first making believe in all sorts of ways, that him and the child was in danger of being taken and shot, he had to make believe afterwards that they had escaped; and to hold her up, in a sort of triumph, at the full stretch of his arm--galloping round and round the ring all the while.

He was a tremendous strong man, and could do it as easy as I could hold up a bit of that plum cake.
"Poor little love! she soon got over the first fright of the thing, and had a sort of mad fondness for it that I never liked to see, for it wasn't natural to her.

Yapp, he said, she'd got the heart of a lion, and would grow up the finest woman-rider in the world.

I was very unhappy about it, and lived a miserable life, always fearing some accident.

But for some time nothing near an accident happened; and lots of money come into the circus to see Yapp and little Mary--but that was Jubber's luck and not ours.