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Excerpt from Slaves of the Sawdust Yet these very people frequent the circus for amuse ment, and enjoy seeing the poor spangled riders and acrobats straining their limbs into all kinds of un natural postures, knowing as they know now, the frightful tortures they must have undergone to fit themselves for their performances. Their selfishness is apparent: they withhold their sympathies, they call my careful statements of facts Sensation, An advertisement, An impossibility in a Christian country - could I not write of such peo ple that they are dull, unimpressible, and wanting in heart and moral courage? It is true I drew a pitiful picture, I set down hard truths, truths which those who cry out about sweaters in the slums dare nothave uncovered. I make known in 18q a great deal, but there is more to divulge about the slaves of the sawdust. My mission shall be to tell it. I will go on until I have gained the protection I crave for those who perform wonderful feats for the pleasure of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.