friend Phil, here, and you will be all right if I am any judge of
boys. I ought to be, for I have boys of my own. You'd better be
going now."

The two lads started off at a brisk pace. Phil to tell Mrs.
Cahill of his good fortune. Teddy to bid good-bye to the people
with whom he had been living as chore boy.



CHAPTER XI

THE FIRST NIGHT WITH THE SHOW

"Teddy, you and I are a pair of lucky boys. Do you know it?"
asked Phil.

Each, with his bag of belongings, was on his way to the circus
lot, the boys having bid good-bye to their friends in the
village.

The people with whom Teddy lived had given a reluctant consent to
his going with the circus, after he had explained that Phil
Forrest had gotten him the place and that Phil himself was going
to join the show. The lad told them he was going to make a lot
of money and that someday he would pay them for all they had done
for him. And he kept his word faithfully.

"Maybe. I reckon Barnum & Bailey will be wanting us first thing
we know," answered Teddy.