Sherlock Holmes And the Dance of the Tiger
“Please, please, dear God, let me go back to the finishing school. I promise to never complain again and to be thankful for each and every lace doily. How I long for those insipid remarks and dreamy watercolor paintings.
Granted, she had a metal cage door between herself and the tigers. Her only job was to open the cage door and to look pretty. From there, the tigers leapt forward towards Mr. Stanislav Afanasy, the trainer, who popped his whip, did summersaults, and directed the tigers as th...ey rode on horses and even jumped through hoops.
She was merely to pose and smile to the crowd—and to walk to the cage to both open the door and close the door once Mr. Afanasy had the tigers back in the enclosure. If one could call it walking; it was more like a continual state of vibration while inching forward or backward as the case may be. Then she put the lock on the cage door, her hands trembling. She carried a whip to make it look as if she was doing something, but it was only for the show.MoreLess
Granted, she had a metal cage door between herself and the tigers. Her only job was to open the cage door and to look pretty. From there, the tigers leapt forward towards Mr. Stanislav Afanasy, the trainer, who popped his whip, did summersaults, and directed the tigers as th...ey rode on horses and even jumped through hoops.
She was merely to pose and smile to the crowd—and to walk to the cage to both open the door and close the door once Mr. Afanasy had the tigers back in the enclosure. If one could call it walking; it was more like a continual state of vibration while inching forward or backward as the case may be. Then she put the lock on the cage door, her hands trembling. She carried a whip to make it look as if she was doing something, but it was only for the show.MoreLess
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