Joe walked across the wire from one platform to the other, doing various "stunts" on the slender support. One day Jim Tracy noticed that a long to the ground between one of the rings and a wooden platform.
"What's that, Joe?" asked the ringmaster, "Looks like an extra guy wire for the pole."
"No, that's for my new stunt," said Joe. "I'll show you at this show."
The audience watched him performing on the high wire. Jim Tracy was watching, too, for he remembered what Joe had said. Suddenly, at the conclusion of the usual wire-walking feats, Joe stooped, placed his head on the slanting wire, raised himself until he was standing with his legs up and spread apart. Then he quickly flung wide his hands and slid on his head down the slanting win to the ground, stopping himself just before he reached it by grasping the wire in his gloved hands.
Jim Tracy, who was sitting on a box, leaped to his feat.
"Head first!" he cried. "That's some stunt!"
And the audience seemed to think so, too, from the way it applauded.