Another, and perhaps the most important, reason was that a number of artistes
dispersed around a town seeking lodgings for the night provided the best possible
form of advertisement, for by the time the various landladies had been to the
butcher, baker and candlestick maker to buy whatever was needed for their new
lodgers, the whole town knew that the circus had arrived.
The rest of the personnel—the tentmen, grooms, menagerie men and
tradesmen—cannot really be classed as circus folk. Undoubtedly no circus of the
magnitude of the Sanger show could have travelled without them, but they were for
the most part a very mixed and very rough lot, picked up whenever and wherever
possible, with no questions aksed. There were, of course, many admirable
characters amongst them, hardworking and trustworthy men who had travelled with
various circuses for years, but these were always a minority. A preponderance of
the rest would be Army and Navy reservists, and often deserters from these services
whom I frequently saw hidden with considerable ingenuity their comrades when the
authorities came searching for them.
Questions :
1. Why did a number of artistes disperse ?
2. What did lodging seekers provide ?
3. Why did various landladies take round of the town ?
4. Who can't be classed as circus folk ?
5. How were these personnel useful for circus ?
6. What type of people were these personnel ?
7. How were they picked up ?
8. Why does the author call them admirable characters ?
9. Whose preponderance was there in these personnels ?
ie Fird the words from the passage which mean — (I) a piece of information to persuade people to do that
(ii) people who work for a large organisation. answer these questions from the passage
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