Part 18 (1/2)

”You seem to know all aboutabout everything

I ought to thank you for getting Mrs Sparling out of that , but I'll let her do that for herself She wants to see you after the perforh I should like to know Mrs Sparling,” said Phil boldly

”Neither do I, neither do I Eone daffy over you

What did you feed hiar and peanuts That was all”

”Huh! You ought to be a show”

”Oh, you have, eh?”

”Yes, sir”

”Well, why don't you?”

”I have never had the opportunity”

”You mean you've never looked for an opportunity There are always opportunities for everything, but we have to go after the after them today for the first time, and you've nailed one of them clear up to the splice of the center pole Understand?”

”Not entirely, sir”

”Well, do you want to join out with the Great Sparling Combined Shows, or don't you?”

”Youhim narrowly

”I said, would you like to join our show?”

”I should like it better than anything else in the world”

”Sign this contract, then,” snapped the show a paper toward Phil Forrest, at the sa it to him

”You will allow me to read it first, will you not?”

”Good! That's the way I like to hear a boy talk Shows he's got some sense besides what he's learned in books at some--well, never asped Phil, scarcely able to believe his eyes as he looked at the paper

”That's what the contract says, doesn't it?”

”Yes, sir”

”Then, that's what it is Traveling expenses and feed included