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Well, we did. He's dead. He's switched off for keeps." "P. S. Yes, Phil says it was a hay barn that the billposter fell off from. Wouldn't it be a good plan to furnish those fellows with nets? Billposters are scarce and we can't afford to lose any good ones." "More trouble," announced Teddy, one morning a few days later, when the boys awoke in Lawrence, Kansas.
Wilbur said it hurt the artistic instinct of a billposter in these hick towns to put up all block stands, and you generally have to slip them a little something to be sure that they burn up all the extra stuff, so that the manager of the company wouldn't find it should he go snooping around the bill room when the show gets in town.
Phil went to work like a seasoned billposter, plastering every old stable and tight board fence in the village. By the time the rival crews drove in there was little space left for them, and such spots as were left were all on back or side streets. "I guess they will know we have been here," decided Phil. "Now I must find a way to get back to the car."
His vocabulary was too limited to express his thoughts fully, but he did fairly well with what he had. Having satisfied himself that his work was well done, Phil let himself down slowly, not using his hands at all, in doing so, but taking a spiral course downward. "H-u-m-m, I'm a little stiff," he said when his feet touched the ground. "Am I a billposter or am I not a billposter, Billy?"
"I guess a one-sheet is about as big a piece of paper as I am fit to handle just yet." He managed the one-sheet without the least trouble, and did a very good job, so much so that Billy complimented him highly. "You will make a billposter yet. One good thing about you is that you are willing to learn, and you are quick to admit that you do not know it all.
All was instantly bustle and excitement. Paste cans were loaded into the wagons, brushes and pails, together with the paper that had been carefully laid out and counted, the night before, for each billposter. A record of this was kept on the car. Phil lent a hand at loading the stuff, and they found that the slim lad was stronger than any of them.
Young Andersen, who by making acquaintance with the billposter was allowed to witness the performances from behind the scenes, decided at once that he was cut out to be an actor. There was no demand for actors in his native town, and he therefore decided to go to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, there to seek his fortune.
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 numbered and signed. Now, if a fellow out in Kankakee, we will say, should chance to tear down the bill, when he presented his ticket at the gate on the day of the show, it would be refused.
Phil hurried back to the road, where Billy and the wagon were waiting. The lad's feet felt lighter than usual. "Well, what luck?" demanded Billy. "I may be a poor apology as a billposter, but as a diplomat I'm a winner, Billy." "You you don't mean you got the silo?" gasped Conley.
"Good job, too." Phil had learned something. He had noted every movement of the billposter. "How long does it take to learn to post, Billy?" he asked. "Some fellows never learn. Others get fairly expert after a few weeks puttering around." "May I try one today?" "Sure thing. If the next one is easy I will give you a chance at it."
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