Part 10 (1/2)
”How long have you been on this car?”
”Four years; this is my fifth season here”
”Why, that is exactly the ti Shows”
Billy nodded
”I saw you work last season You are a bird on the trapeze, and ride--, but you can beat anything I ever saw on bareback!
I knew I had seen you before when you ca, but I couldn't place you I relad you handed it out to the Boss this afternoon”
”And I a will think of it Still, I had to do soht away that he had made up his ht?”
”Twelve o'clock, I think And speaking of that, it is time to turn in”
The three entered the car Mr Snowden already had turned in, his end of the car being dark and silent Most of the billposters also had climbed to their berths near the roof of the car, and so heavily
”Do they do this all night long?” questioned Teddy
”Do what?”
”Roll logs!”
”Well, yes,” laughed Billy; ”they are pretty good snorers, all of theht, on a pinch I don't knohether I do or not I am usually asleep when I snore How about it, Phil, do I snore?”
”Not when I a distance of you”
The boys undressed, got into their pajaed to climb to the top of the pile of paper, where their blankets had been spread for thehed Phil
”The worst ever!” agreed Teddy ”How I'ets under motion I don't knoish I was back with the show”
”Never s pretty easy for the last four years A little hardshi+p will not hurt either of us
And I knoe are going to like this life, after we get et up; do you know?”
”No, I don't know anything about it I guess in tiht”
In a few minutes the Circus Boys were sound asleep They did not even awaken when, about ine hooked to their car, and after racing them up and down the railroad yards a few tier train that was to pull them to their next stand, some seventy-fiveaway The road was a crooked one and the car swayed dizzily, but they were too used to the sensation to be in the least disturbed by it
An hour or two had passed when, all at once, everyyell and a wild commotion somewhere in the darkness of the car
”What is it?”