Part 37 (1/2)
”What do you want the telegraph et back with
I've got to be there tomorrow, in time for the show I must do it, if I have to run all the way”
The men were impressed by his story in spite of themselves; yet they were loath to believe that this slender lad, anization he had named
”What do you do in the show?”
”I perfors, ride the elephant and ride bareback in the ring What about it? Will one of you put ers consulted for a moment; then the spokesman turned to Phil
”I reckon, if you be a circus feller, you kin show us some tricks, eh?”
”Perform for you, youlike that on Sunday,” answered the Circus Boy reflectively
”Eat on Sunday, don't you?”
”When I get a chance,” Phil grinned ”I guess your arguot to eat and I have offered to earn my meal What do you want me to do?”
”Kin you do a flip?”
Phil threw hie of the railroad tracks, ending in a backward somersault
”And you ride a hoss without any saddle, standing up on his back--you do that, too?”
”Why, yes,” laughed Phil, his face red fro Coht, of course, that he was being taken to the et his breakfast
He was considerably surprised, therefore, when the men passed the house that his acquaintance pointed out as belonging to himself, and took their way on toward a collection of fars some distance further up the road
”I wonder what they are going to do now?” marveled Phil
”This surely doesn't lookmy way, and I'm almost famished”
The leader of the party let down the bars of the fare hay barn, into an enclosed space, in the center of which stood a straw stack, the stack and yard being surrounded by barns and sheds
”Where are you fellows takingto put hingly
”You want some breakfast, eh?”
”Certainly I do, but I'hed uproariously at this bit of huested one