Chapter 17

Continuation of the Gymnast’s Reminiscences—Circus Men in Difficulties—Heavy Security for a Small Debt—The Sheriff’s Officer and the Elephant—Taking Refuge with the Lions—Another Provincial Tour—With a Circus in Dublin—A Joke in the Wrong Place—A Fenian Hoax—A Case of Pikes—Return to England—At the Kentish Watering-places—Off to the North

Circus Life and Circus Celebrities