Part 21 (1/2)
inquired Phil ”You know I am interested now that I have cast my lot with it”
”Yes; I certainly have decided Of course the car will go on just the same”
”I understand that, but have you ent--ill be er of the car?”
”I have”
”I presuo on?”
”Yes”
”Then we shall have to lie here a day, at least Well, we can busy ourselves We are slighting a good er towns They are not half-billed”
”I aood publicity er than you wish,” added the shower is, Mr Sparling?”
”Yes You are thereply
CHAPTER XI
THREE CHEERS AND A TIGER
”Man--Manager of Car Three?” stae
”_That_-- gave hi, I know so little about the work Of course I am proud and happy to be promoted to so responsible a position, but almost, if not every man on the car, is better equipped for this work than I am”
”They may be more faree with your view In teeks' tier that there will not be a better agent in the United States”
The Circus Boy flushed happily
”You will have to be alive But I do not need to say that
You always are alive You will have to fight the railroads constantly, to get your car through on time; you will have to combat innumerable elements that as yet you have not had experience with However, I have no fear I know the stuff you are ht to I have known you for nearly five years”
”I will do hter in the eyes of the Circus Boy now
”Then again, you are going right into territory where you will have the stiffest kind of opposition At least five shows are booked for our territory almost from now on”
”Have any of them billed that territory?”
”I think the Wild West Show has The others are about due there now”