The Circus Boys on the Plains; Or, The Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show

the work on an advance car is," said Phil aft

est you will have to pick up for yourself. In the first place an advertising ca

doesn't mean much of any

t work for us. Any boards not owned by a billposter, or a barn or a pigpen or a henhouse on the road is called a 'daub.' At least two tickets are given for every place we put a piece of paper on. These tickets are

he had taken down the p

er we put up. We send the record of our work to the car back of us

ul system, indee

oes only where there is trouble, where there is opposition. For instance, more than half a dozen shows are coming into this

ir bills over yours, over th

itten law in the show business

o them in time to h

law, written or unwritten,

ets for the privilege the same as do the billposters. One man goes ahead of them and does what we call 'the squaring,' meaning that he enters the stores and asks the privileg

it, but I think I should like that wo

cked up in high places and the banner men have to be good climbers. They fi

a joke?" int

he mouth of the banner man. The tack sticks to the head of the hammer and is thus ready to be driven

oes the fellow calle

s. When we are making a day run with the car he drops the printed matter off at s

are

or thrown the stuff in a ditch somewhere. After them come checkers, one after the other. This is Car Three, as you know

to go out with one of th

arn were you left to pick them up yourself. Don't say anything to him about it unless he speaks to you, but prepare to go out

at will

ur friend h

r," answered Teddy w

ickum stuff fo

. The Boss must certainly have a grudge against you. You will be hanging around the car all day, however, a

here to sleep. H

works around h

ame on the advance

hem forty years ago. Nobody seems to have head enough to do things

ve you been

his is my fift

ctly the time we

ing S

y no

ever saw on bareback! I knew I had seen you before when you came in this evening, but I couldn't plac

it. Still, I had to do something. I saw right away that he had ma

k. And speaking of that

e car being dark and silent. Most of the billposters also had climbed to th

all night long?"

wh

l lo

"they are pretty good snorer

er I do or not. I am usually asleep when

ithin punching d

rable effort managed to climb to the top of the pile of paper

bed, is it Tedd

o stick in that bed when the car gets under moti

A little hardship will not hurt either of us. And I know we are going to like

I guess in time for late breakfast,

wn the railroad yards a few times, coupled them to the rear of the passenger train that was to pull them to their next stand, some seventy-five miles away. A few minut

the car was suddenly startled by a blood-curdling yell a

t is

we wr

did we

s the men came tumbling from their berths, some sprawling