Possible Clues:

• twenty-two ball game
• Nick's about to toss up
• Take a little from both ends of loaf in landing-place
• Take a little from top and bottom of loaf, getting put in dock
• Appropriate way to repeat somersault backwards
• Take over referee with insolent talk
• Nick turns to man in black with insolence
• Steal (little things)
• Commit small robbery that's left female in dock
• Turn again, going back to lift