Here is the second part of Bailey's circus story.

 Part 2

Bright lights flashed all around and acrobats came rolling out. Everyone went crazy. The whole tent was shaking and all us kids were screaming in excitement. 

Once the ring master had finished her introduction and the lights and smoke had started to clear, we could see 2 cowboys in the ring. They had some stock whips and some newspaper. 

“What on earth are they going to do with that?” I thought.

Next thing I know the guy cowboy was holding out a sheet of newspaper at arm's length, right in front of his body. The girl cowboy had taken her position a wee bit in front of him. She cracked her whip a few times off to the side. 

OH MY GOSH, it made the loudest cracking sound I’d ever heard. 

Once she was ready and felt confident, she started hitting the newspaper with the whip.