"You want to wait till you've been in this business a year or two,"
said Ben, sagely, "an' then you won't think much of it. Why, I've
known the show towns to be thirty miles apart, an' them was the
times when we had lively work of it. Riding all night and working
all day kind of wears on a fellow."

"Yes, I s'pose so," said Toby, with a sigh, as he wondered whether
he had got to work as hard as that; "but I s'pose you get all you
want to eat, don't you?"

"Now you've struck it!" said Ben, with the air of one about to impart
a world of wisdom, as he crossed one leg over the other, that his
position might be as comfortable as possible while he was initiating
his young companion into the mysteries of the life. "I've had all
the boys ride with me since I've been with this show, an' I've
tried to start them right; but they didn't seem to profit by it,
an' always got sick of the show an' run away, just because they
didn't look out for themselves as they ought to. Now listen to me,
Toby, an' remember what I say. You see they put us all in a hotel
together, an' some of these places where we go don't have any too
much stuff on the table. Whenever we strike a new town you find
out at the hotel what time they have the grub ready, an' you be
on hand, so's to get in with the first. Eat all you can, an' fill
your pockets."

"If that's all a feller has to do to travel with a circus," said
Toby, "I'm just the one, 'cause I always used to do just that when
I hadn't any idea of bein' a circus man."