Part 4 (1/2)
”Your mule? The idea! Noould you do with a donkey on an advance car, I should like to know?”
”Hefor the rest of the crowd”
”I should say he would! But, from what little I know of the advance, you will have plenty to interest you without having an ill-teht with the show for a long time to come”
Phil made his way to his own berth, where he pro froht of what lay before hi both lads were awake; by the tiinaw they had nearly coe
The rest was quickly accomplished, after they had eaten their breakfast under the cook tent All preparations ood-byes said, the Circus Boys boarded a train just as the strains of the circus band were borne to their ears
”The parade is on,” said Phil as their train moved out
”And we are not there to ride in it We'll have to get up so,”
smiled Teddy
Late that afternoon the boys reached St Paul
After considerable searching about they finally found Car Nu the porter who they were, the lads made themselves comfortable in the office of the car, a roo berths, a desk, easy chairs and other conveniences
”This is pretty soft, I',” decided Teddy
”It is very nice, if that is what you mean,” corrected Phil
”That's what I ine we are to berth at the other end of the car”
”Let's go look at it”
The other end of the car co berths and benches for laying out the lithographs
At the far end was a stea paste hich to post the bills That coance or comfort
”Do the men sleep on those shelves up there?” questioned Teddy of the porter
”Shelves, sir? Hi calls thelishman
”Humph!”
”What do you think of our new horumbled the Circus Boy ”I think I prefer the stateroo over the work”
Teddy, with a scowl on his face, went outside to take a look at the car froht red, with the nailded letters
”If the inside were half as good-looking as the outside, it would be so all around the car ”I think I'll go back and join the show”
”Oh, be sensible, Teddy,” chided Phil ”We shall be very coet settled Here co the e
”Are you Mr Snowden?” asked Phil, politely