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Updated: May 11, 2025
Don't they know they can get to see the circus if they want to carry water for the elephants?" "I guess the boys in this town never saw a circus before, Mr. Burrows," replied the canvasman. "Here, you," Mr. Burrows called to Darn. "Want to earn a ticket to the circus?" "No," said Darn loftily. "I've got a reserved box seat." He turned and walked off. "What did I tell you, Sam?" laughed Mr.
Ah, you're too particular.... And if the canvasman catches you, you can commence to cry and say you had only forty cents, and wanted to see the circus so bad, and he'll take it and let you in, and you can have ten cents, don't you see, to spend for lemonade, red lemonade, you understand; and peanuts, the littlest bags, and the "on-riest" peanuts that ever were.
Perhaps you who read this have felt your own insignificance while gazing at an imperial tent-peg that happened to lie in your path as you wandered about the grounds; or you have certainly felt mean and lowly in the presence of a program-peddler, and positively servile in contact with a boss canvasman. It is in the air; and the very air is the property of the circus.
The cowboys threw lassoes over the hind feet of the elephants, and tried to hold them, and the elephants bellowed, and dragged the cowboys and their ponies right amongst the other animals, and in about a minute, as the boss canvasman said when he came to, and they were picking the cactus thorns out of him: "Hell was just plumb out for noon."
Phil had made his grand entry on Emperor, and Teddy had nearly sent the spectators into hysterics by his funny antics on the back of Jumbo, the educated mule. All at once the circus men glanced aloft as the shrill whistle of the boss canvasman trilled somewhere outside the big top. The audience, if they heard, gave no heed. They were too much interested in the show.
If he does, he tells them where to get to out of that and how quick he wants it done, in language that makes the boldest efforts of the boys from across the tracks seem puny in comparison. The lads divide into two parties. One follows the buggy of the boss canvasman to Vandeman's lots where the stand is made.
"They're cheering for you," a canvasman informed him. "For me?" "Yes." Teddy needed no more. Without an instant's hesitation he ran out into the ring, where he stood smiling, bowing and throwing kisses to them. "Come and see us again!" yelled the Circus Boy. "We will that!" answered a chorus of voices. "I'll have the big hen lay another egg for you.
The boss canvasman said he was opposed to mixing religion with the circus business, because the fellows could get all the religion they needed in the winter, when the show was laid up and he would see the boys through in anything they proposed to do to the sky pilot that was going to play his game in ring No. 1 at 10:30 the next day.
Just wait till I get hold of him -I'll teach him to get me into hot water with the audience!" fumed the ringmaster. "Well; I don't know where he went," answered the canvasman, and resumed his work on the wall of the menagerie tent. Then the ringmaster walked to another part of the dressing-tent to put on his street clothing, for he did not dare appear in the ring again at that performance.
"We shall be soon, old fellow," answered Phil, patting him on the shoulder. "And for many days after this, I hope. Hello, I wonder what's wrong up there?" Phil's quick glance had caught something up near the half-raised dome that impressed him as not being right. "Look out aloft!" he sang out warningly. "The key rope's going. Grab the other line!" bellowed the boss canvasman.
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