The next to come forward was a very pretty and elegant young woman:
"Miss Clara Morley, our accomplished 'Amazon'—you will have an opportunity to admire her in her clever equestrian exercises."
After Miss Morley came three men and three women, none of them either fat or thin, tall or short, handsome or ugly—but all very well dressed and civil.
"Our Riders, Mr. and Mrs. Crampton, Mr. and Mrs. Bampton, and Mr. and Mrs. Mapton."
Mr. Hardwick next presented:
"Mr. Nilo Bong, the famous Gymnast from Tonquin—the Ulverstone Sisters, Miss Jane and Miss Lucy Ulverstone, who every evening, Monsieur, astonish and delight the audience by their dexterity on the Horizontal Bar.
"Mr. Pound—to whom the lifting of a two-hundred pound weight is a mere joke, and Mrs.
"Mr. Pound, his wife, the 'Fairy of the Revolver'—at 100 feet she would not miss a nut!...
"Mr. Tom Liverpool, the Champion Pugilist, whom no one has ever been able to vanquish!
"Miss Alice Jewel, who crosses the Ganges at its widest part on a Wire!"...