Perhaps that audience would have proved to you almost as interesting as the performance, for it was made up of many sorts of men that the threshing had brought together--farm-hands, cowpunchers, store-keepers, blacksmiths, bartenders, hold-up men, but no sheepherders.

Sheepherders were not welcome among threshers, nor in any other Western community.

Of women there were two--the wife of the foreman of the ranch, and one who helped her.
No person on the ranch was absent, for before the performance the Mildinis had given a sort of sample of their talent; of what all were to expect.

A tight-rope had been stretched across the Yellowstone River, and on this, clad in pink tights, balance-pole in hand, Signor Antolini had walked, high over the more or less raging flood.
Do you ever tire of shows?
I hope you don't.

I don't, and offhand I can't think of many people who do.