The mysterious stranger : a romance by Twain Mark 1835-1910 & Wyeth N. C. (Newell Convers) 1882-1945

Author:Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 & Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945 [Twain, Mark, 1835-1910]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: New York : Harper
Published: 1916-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

oval reached up twenty feet in the air and was a shining and glinting and wonderful sight. Then he folded his arms and told the balls to go on spinning without his help— and they did it. After a couple of minutes he said, "There, that will do," and the oval broke and came crashing down, and the balls scattered abroad and rolled every whither. And wherever one of them came the people fell back in dread, and no, one would touch it. It made him laugh, and he scoffed at the people and called them cowards and old women. Then he turned and saw the tight-rope, and said foolish people were daily wasting their money to see a clumsy and ignorant varlet degrade that beautiful art; now they should see the work of a master. With that he made a spring into the air and lit firm on his feet on the rope. Then he hopped the whole length of it back and forth on one foot, with his hands clasped over his eyes; and next he began to throw somersaults, both backward and forward, and threw twenty-seven.

The people murmured, for the astrologer w r as old, and always before had been halting of movement and at times even lame, but he was nimble enough now and went on with his antics in the liveliest manner. Finally he sprang lightly down and walked away, and passed up the road and around the corner and disappeared. Then that great, pale, silent, solid crowd drew a deep breath and looked into one

another's faces as if they said: "Was it real? Did you

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