of his action:

"If I hadn't of, you'd probably never of met your father. He couldn't of
spoken to you if he hadn't seen you before you got into the circus."

That impressed Jerry as a point of view that might be true and somehow
he didn't feel angry at Danny and Celia Jane any more. He was too happy
at having a clown for his father to hold resentment.

"Mebbe not," was all he said, but Danny took those words as meaning that
Jerry wasn't going to stay mad.

"How'd you get in?" he asked eagerly.

"Whiteface thought of a way that didn't cost any money," replied Jerry.

"What kind of a way was that?" Danny was all eagerness for information
of that sort.

"I don't know," said Jerry. "He thought of something an' told me to keep
my eyes shut an' I didn't see what he done."

"Didn't you open 'em jest once?" demanded Danny. "I would of and then
mebbe we could of got into other circuses that way."

"It might of mixed our thoughts, like when I said something when he told
me not to," Jerry observed.

"What d'you mean, mixin' your thoughts?"