Another field is the collecting of cartoons. Again it is surprising to find how many cartoonists use juggling themes fairly often over the years. By watching the comic strips and magazine cartoons you can create a very interesting collection and one which portrays the layman's view of jugglers. Most cartoonists draw a juggling club that more closely resembles a bowling pin. Exceptions are such juggler-artists as Phil Berube, Kirk Stiles, Joe Marsh, or George DeMott. If this field interests you and you get duplicates send them to me and I'll send back something you'll enjoy adding to your cartoon collection.

still another challenging field is the collection of similes and metaphors, and humorous stories. In the case of stories one must often substitute the word juggler for "actor" or "magician". To illustrate, the following is a story usually told about actors but could apply equally well to jugglers.

A troupe of jugglers was stranded and trying to reach the next river town but had no money or means of transportation. Finally they talked the captain of a river scow carrying a load of garbage into giving them a lift. As they passed a bend in the river a voice from shore called out, "Hey, cap'n, what're you carrying this trip?" "A load of garbage and a bunch of jugglers", the captain yelled. One of the jugglers was heard to exclaim, "Not even first billing?"

The collecting of similes and metaphors is perhaps the most challenging since they appear in a wide variety of books, magazines and newspapers. Here are a few samples. From the book, Gus the Great by Thomas W. Duncan, "But she really felt more like a juggler that autumn, she was so busy not letting her left hand know what her right was doing." Or from the same book, "She had momentarily forgotten Barbara, she could never  juggle more than one idea at a time." From the book, How to  get rich in TV without really  trying by Shepherd Mead. "When one plot is half  done, start another. When the first one ends, another will be building. It's like juggling Indian clubs. For every one going down there is another one going up." Or from Jay Cronley, a Tulsa World columnist. "My exit, naked, was the type you expect from a juggler who had dropped every thing - a soft shuffle backwards culminated by a 'That's all folks', and a tip of the hat." Or for a closer, from Ilka Chase's book, Free Admission - "Mr (Lee) Shubert in the opinion of most Broadway producers, is a full time copee requiring the same caliber of concentration as that of a juggler who keeps two dozen balls, knives, and Indian clubs in the air, simultaneously balancing a whirling plate on a billiard cue on the end of his nose."

I wonder what juggler she saw---but that's the way the ball bounces!