I said: "Why ?" He said: "I am going to get off and watch the rest of this show from behind a tree.

There may be great performers in this line, as Harris says; this particular artist appears to me to lack something.

He has just soused a dog, and now he's busy watering a sign-post.

I am going to wait till he has finished." "Nonsense," said Harris; "he won't wet you." "That is precisely what I am going to make sure of," answered George, saying which he jumped off, and, taking up a position behind a remarkably fine elm, pulled out and commenced filling his pipe.
I did not care to take the tandem on by myself, so I stepped off and joined him, leaving the machine against a tree.

Harris shouted something or other about our being a disgrace to the land that gave us birth, and rode on.
The next moment I heard a woman's cry of distress.