The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington
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Spotted Horse. Got your war paint on?"
"I always have my war paint on," grinned Teddy, as he started toward the private office, following Conley and Phil Forrest. The three ranged up before the car manager, who surveyed them with glowering face. "What have you done today?" he demanded, fixing his gaze on Billy. "We got up more than four hundred sheets of paper." "Four hundred sheets!" groaned Snowden. "What have you fellows been doing? Sleeping by the roadside?" "No, sir, we have been working, and Mr. Forrest here pulled off one of the cleverest hits that's ever been made. He plastered a silo that stands out like a sore thumb on the landscape, and which every farmer within ten or twenty miles about will go to look at." "Humph, I don't believe it! What have the other men done?" Conley reported as to the number of sheets that the men had posted, whereat the manager rose, pounded his desk and, in a towering rage, expressed his opinion of the tribe of billposters again. Billy smiled sarcastically, in which he was joined by Teddy, |
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