Tales From the Graveyard by Guy N Smith

Author:Guy N Smith [Smith, Guy N]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sinister Horror Company
Published: 2020-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

Jeffrey's Circus was clearly a low budget show as Richmond remarked to Odell as they sat in the sparse audience. The two clowns had been clumsy and unfunny, the trapeze artist's “stunts” were little more than gymnastics. ‘And that lion,’ Richmond grunted, ‘is old and toothless.’

‘And sedated,’ Odell grimaced.

The lion ambled out of the ring behind Marcus, the trainer. There was a lengthy pause and then Joseph Jeffrey, clad in worn and frayed ringmaster's attire, announced that, ‘You are now about to witness, ladies and gentlemen, the cowboy right from the wild west. Allow me to introduce you to Buckaroo Bill!’

Tommy's boredom soon vanished. The cowboy, in authentic clothing, sat on his horse with ease and skill, whirled a lariat with true expertise. Then, from the entrance tunnel, bounded a half-grown calf. Buckaroo Bill whirled his lasso, threw it deftly over the animal’s head, rolled it kicking and twisting in a cloud of sawdust. In one perfectly coordinated movement he leapt from his mount, trussed the calf with a length of rope. Then he turned to the audience, swept his Stetson from his head and bowed to the applause.

‘I think we'll have a word with Mister Jaffrey after the show,’ Odell muttered to Richmond.

‘Can’t see how all this figures in the business of the mutilated ostrich,’ Richmond answered and then fell silent. Whatever his unofficial colleague suspected, he was unlikely to explain until his suspicions were either proved or disproved.

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