CHAPTER XIV.

Reminiscences of a Gymnast—Training and Practising—A 254–267 Professional Rendezvous—Circus Agencies—The First Engagement—Springthorp’s Music-hall—Newsome’s Circus—Reception in the Dressing-room—The Company and the Stud—The Newsome Family—Miss Newsome’s wonderful Leap across a Green Lane—The Handkerchief Trick—An Equine Veteran from the Crimea—Engagement to Travel