Essays

The Gemini Circus paid a visit to our town last month. It is still there and will stay for about a month mere.

Last week I went to visit the circus show with my uncle. My uncle bought the tickets and we went in. We sat at the front row of chairs in the circular tent. Music was going on and everybody was waiting breathlessly for the event.

As the nets, ladders and cages had been fixed at their proper places, the first event was now joint to start. Meanwhile, the clowns clad in motley dresses had been enthralling the spectators with their funny presentations.

All of a sudden, there emerged smart half-clad girls on, strangely structured bicycles. Some of the bicycles had no handles.  Others had only one wheel. Some of them broke into two as the girls were riding them. But those smart girls never fell down, nor let their bicycles

 As they moved out, there appeared a monkey followed by a bear each riding a one wheeled small-sized bicycles. I was greatly amused. I particularly liked the monkey who was looking here and there and even gibbering while riding the vehicle.

Thereafter, there came an elephant playing with football. Then there were many events. Many mart girls and young men walked and danced on precariously fixed ropes and swung on rope swings.

One man put his head into the mouth of a lion. A lion jumped through a naming ring. One of the most dangerous feats was a man's driving a motorbike in a circular globe called hell. In another event a jeep was passed over the chest of a man lying with his chest covered only with a piece of wood.

Clowns came every now and then to provide comic relief and music went on. I was beaming with joy as the show came to an end and we returned home.