Careers of Danger and Daring
本书摘录:
The Steeple-Climber
_ I
IN WHICH WE MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF "STEEPLE BOB"
DURING the summer months of 1900--what blazing hot months, to be sure!--people on lower Broadway were constantly coming upon other people with chins in the air, staring up and exclaiming: "Dear me, isn‘t it wonderful!" or "There‘s that fellow again; I‘m sure he‘ll break his neck!" Then they would pass on and give place to other wonderers.
The occasion of this general surprise and apprehension was a tall man dressed entirely in white, who appeared day after day swinging on a little seat far up the side of this or that church steeple, or right at the top, hugging the gold cross or weather-vane, or, higher still, working his way, with a queer, kicking, hitching movement, up various hundred-foot flagpoles that rise from the heaven-challenging office buildings down near Wall Street. At these perilous altitudes he would hang for hours, shifting his ropes occasionally, raising his swing or lowering it, but
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