Part 14 (2/2)
So long”
Phil hurried back to the road, where Billy and the wagon aiting The lad's feet felt lighter than usual
”Well, what luck?” dey as a billposter, but as a diploot the silo?” gasped Conley
”I got the silo, and I can have the hog pen too, if I want it, and perhaps the farood measure,”
answered Phil, his face flushed from his first triumph as a publicity showman
”Well, of all the nerve!”
”That's what the fared his mind”
”What do you think of that?” deht”
”You're right; he is The next question, now that you have got the silo, is what are you going to do with it?”
”Post it,” answered Phil promptly
”You can never do it”
”I'll show you what a circusand unload your truck Help ly, Billy did as he was bid, and the driver, non interested, hitched his horses to the fence and followed them
The silo was empty Phil measured the distance to the top with his eyes
”About forty feet I should say,” he decided ”We shall have to do so”
The ladders were far too short, but by splicing two of the in the silo some ten feet fro plank; then setting the spliced ladders up inside the silo heone end of a coil of rope with hi he directed Billy to tie the other end of the rope to the plank This being done, Phil hauled the board up to where he was sitting perched on the fra to do?”
”If you will come up here I will show you”
”Not on your life,” replied Billy promptly ”I knohen I'et his wish”
”What as that?”
”That you ht fall off a barn and break your neck”