Emmett Lawler

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...about them. It was just a sense of delicacy running like a streak of gold in very common earth. Perhaps it was an inherited instinct from his mother. It may also be said that he believed in a woman's honor if she believed in it. He never once thought of virtue or honor in connection with women. In fact, to be quite frank, he felt that other things being equal, he could get more understanding and appreciation from women of the underworld. He should not be condemned for this, his life had convinced him of its truth. He had stirrings of ambition now and then, and a vague desire at times to attempt to live up to Ruth's faith in him. But the line of least resistance was to drift with the tide, as carefree as the wind that plays upon green meadows. There was a new position open with the circus which placed Emmett upon the ragged edge of the acting profession. If a man rolls a hoop around the circus ring, he is a performer. Does he not perform with a hoop? Has he not a right then to sit at the performer's table, and take on airs? There was a comical scene in the circus in which a man endeavored to wrestle with a mule. Emmett's new position consisted of being chief wrestler. The ringmaster would stand in the center of the ring and offer a reward of ten dollars, or a million to the man who threw the mule, or managed to ride on its back. Emmett wore heavily padded clothes for the occasion designed to make a rustic holiday. From some point in the audience he would stroll to the ring after hearing the announcement. Through long practice the mule became more than ambidextrous, --it could bite, kick, and paw at the same time. If it should have a mulish kind impulse toward the man in the ring who had a foolish notion as to how to...