motte and bailey

The Motte & Bailey One Ring Circus has moved into winter quarters on the Foggy Bottoms Resort and Spa.  Try outs for various new high wire artists were in progress.  Seen above are two not very promising wannabe performers.  Their coach, the Face of Everyman, becoming evermore frustrated.  Conventional wisdom had that any song bird could perch on a wire.  “These two were pitiable”.