stood at the door and looked on, with blood in his eye.

"Look here!" he thundered suddenly, interrupting Dan--"I've had enough of
you!" The couple stopped, astonished, and Sal cried, "DAD!" But Dad was
hot. "Out of this!" (placing his hand on Dan, and shoving him). "You've
loafed long enough on me! Off y' go t' th' devil!"

Dan went over to Anderson's and Anderson took him in and kept him a week.
Then Dan took Anderson down at a new game of cards, and went away
West again.




Chapter XV.



Our Circus.


Dave had been to town and came home full of circus. He sat on the ground
beside the tubs while Mother and Sal were washing, and raved about the
riding and the tumbling he had seen. He talked enthusiastically to Joe
about it every day for three weeks. Dave rose very high in Joe's
estimation.

Raining. All of us inside. Sal on the sofa playing the concertina; Dad
squatting on the edge of a flat stone at the corner of the fireplace; Dave
on another opposite; both gazing into the fire, which was almost out,