文档介绍：The Circus Boys In Dixie Land (Or Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South)
The Circus Boys In Dixie
Land
(Or Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South)
Edgar B. P. Darlington
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The Circus Boys In Dixie Land (Or Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South)
CHAPTER I
UNDER CANVAS AGAIN
"I reckon the fellows will turn out to see us tomorrow night, Teddy."
"I hope so, Phil. We'll show them that we are real circus performers,
won't we?"
Phil Forrest nodded happily.
"They know that already, I think. But we shall both feel proud to
perform in our home town again. They haven't seen us in the ring since
the day we first joined the show two years ago, and then it was only a little
performance."
"Remember the day I did a stunt in front of the circus billboard back
home?"
"And fell in the ditch, head first? I remember it," and Phil Forrest
laughed heartily.
"You and I weren't circus men then, were we?"
"No."
"But we are now."
"I guess we are," nodded Phil with emphasis. "Still, we have
something to learn yet. We are a couple of lucky boys, you and I, Teddy
Tucker. Had it not been for Mr. Sparling we might still have been doing
chores for our board in Edmeston."
"Instead, we are getting our envelopes with sixty dollars apiece in
them from the little red ticket wagon every Tuesday morning, eh?"
"Just so."
"I never thought I'd be able to earn so much money as that in a whole
year," reflected Teddy.
"Nor I."
"Do you think we'll get any more 'raises' this season?"
"I haven't the least idea that we shall. You know our contracts are
signed for the season at sixty dollars a week. That surely should be
enough to satisfy us. We shall be able to save a whole lot of money, this
year; and, if we have good luck, in five years more we'll be able to have a
little show of our own."
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The Circus Boys In Dixie Land (Or Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South)
Teddy agreed to this with a reflective nod.
"What kind of show?"
"Well, tha