[Scene: The big tent-stable of a travelling circus. On the ground near the entrance GENTLEMAN JOHN, stableman and general odd-job man, lies smoking beside MERRY ANDREW, the clown. GENTLEMAN JOHN is a little hunched man with a s...
My hands were hot upon a hare, Half-strangled, struggling in a snare, - My knuckles at her warm wind-pipe, When suddenly, her eyes shot back, Big, fearful, staggering and black;...