Part 2 (1/2)
”I haven't enough to do this season I a else to do”
”Let me see; howtrapeze, then I do a single bareback riding act and a double with Little Dimples, the same as I did last season”
The showman nodded reflectively
”Besides which, you attend to nue the side shows, keep an eye on the candy butchers, erie tent and other things too nus to do,” grinned the showman ”I could run this shoith a dozen men like you, Phil In all my circus experience I never saw your equal”
Phil flushed He did not like to be complimented He did his work because he loved it, not wholly for the handso froon every week
Phil was ambitious; he hoped, as has been said before, to have a show of his own someday, and he let no day pass that he did not add to his store of knowledge regarding the circus business
In this a possible to aid the lad in acquiring a far-reaching knowledge of the vocation he had chosen for his lifework
”Thank you, Mr Sparling Let's talk about so else”
”We will eat first You probably will enjoy that more than you do my compliments”
”I am sure of it,” answered the lad with a twinkle in his eyes
”I have been thinking of giving you solanced up at his e of closing you”
”Youat the shoith steady, inquiring eyes
”Well, I should hardly say that I a without you I a you”
”Transferring me?” wondered Phil
”Yes By the way, do you know much about the advance work, the work ahead of the show?”
”Very little Iat all, except what I have picked up by reading the reports of the car ether with the letters you write to these oes, but there is a dealdepartment of a show than you will ever learn froine”
”Yes; the success, the very existence of a circus is dependent upon the work of the lected and you would see how soon business would drop off and the gate receipts dwindle, until, one day, the shoould find itself stranded”
”Nothing could strand the Sparling Show,” interposed Phil
”You are ement would put this show out of business in two months' tily Any business will fail if not properly attended to, but a circus is the most hazardous of the,” remarked Phil
”It is For instance, when a show has a business of sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars a day for several weeks, it rather repays one for all the trouble and worry he has gone through”
”I should say it does,” answered Phil, his eyes lighting up appreciatively
”And noe co at”