He was an Irishman." "You didn't start to tell me about Mr.O'Halloran." "No.

He wasn' your sort at all; and besides, he's dead.

But about Black Sultan--Miss Montagu used to rest 'im, 'alf-way in his turn, while the clown they called Bimbo--but his real name was Ernest Stanley--as't a riddle about a policeman and a red 'errin' in a newspaper.

She always rested alongside o' me; and I always stood in the same place, right over a ring-bolt where they made fast one of the stays for the trapeze; and regular as Black Sultan rested, he'd up with his off hind foot and rub the pastern-bone, very soft, on the ring-bolt.

So one day I unscrewed an' sneaked it, jus' to see what he'd do.