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

cans outside! S

ere one of the hired help," ob

t you are hired help if you remain on this car. I'll take

he ce

for each can. That will be about right for a can of paste. Henry will show you how m

t his work. He was much more meek than usual, and this very fact, had the manager

air of blue jeans, held up by pieces of string reaching up over his shoulders. His was

ttached a hose pipe to the boiler, under the direction of Henry. Next he filled

ly, but observing nothing that he could find fault with, he got a stick and began poking in the bot

head of steam through the hose pipe. There being one hundre

water, flour, bluestone and all, and for the next few seconds Manager Snowden was the central figure in the little drama. It rained uncooked pa

Choking, sputtering, blinded for the moment by the stuff that had

eam, went out on the

innocently. Perhaps he did

the very good reason that he cou

" muttered the lad. In

o the car, and, drawing a pail of water from the tap, ra

l of water over the manager's head. "That's the way

. They were not long in arriving. The instant Snowden got the flour out of hi

er, who was perched on a brake wheel

the paddle used for the purpose of stir

t to the other side of the car. Snowden was after him w

rushing around the end of the car. The chase was on, but Teddy Tucker was much more fleet of foot than was h

ching them, big-eyed and apprehensive, but Teddy k

platform of the car, and sprang up on the platform railing. Here, grasping the edge, he pul

you to play your miserable pranks on me!" The roof of

r nose stuck in the paste pot when I

ncrease the anger of

se; you know you did

wn, I te

p. It's fin

stily gathering up a handful of coal he began heaving the piec

und the car. He let these drive at Mr. Snowden, one after the other, not, however, throwing with suffi

he bombardment, for he was getti

dash for the interior of the car, where it was his

d hid behind a freight car a short distance from the show car. When Mr. Sno

is office, changed his clothes, then strode off up town to a hote

om his hiding place. "I think I will go back to work. I must earn my money somehow.

ightened that he hardly dared talk to Teddy, for fear the manage

n spirit. He did not even look at Teddy Tucker, though the latter was watching the manager out o

ung Tucker, grinning to himself. "But won't Ph

ard work stirring the stiff paste, and it seemed as if Teddy got the greater part of it over his clothes

rove in there was a howl of merriment.

d Horse!" shou

ed Teddy, in none too e

er!" cried Missing Link. From that moment on, aboard Car Th

ns than the porter had told them of the troub

office, heard the sounds of merriment and knew that the laughter

an't trifle with and i

ent he roar

to begin," announced Billy, with a gr

orrest, along!" s

called

that fool f

Horse," suggested

e. Got your

Teddy, as he started toward the private o

the car manager, who survey

day?" he demanded, fix

han four hundred

owden. "What have you fellows bee

ts that's ever been made. He plastered a silo that stands out like a sore thumb on the

ieve it! What have

ed, whereat the manager rose, pounded his desk and, in a towerin

ned by Teddy, but Phil's face was solemn. He wa

o me, I will go back to my pl

glared

you to leave

ve you d

ere until I te

well

here to be a witness to what I

y no

re, until it has come to a point where I appear to be no longer manager of this car.

ou are mis

y defied me, but turned on the steam when I was examining a paste pot, a

. "The idea of a big man like you pitching on

et you are a boy if

ough of it. I'll

under

lied to th

Have you anything to say for your

sir, I

y i

pered man it has ever bee

Both of you! Get o

u hea

rdered to Number Three by Mr. Sparling. We will try to do our duty, but we shall