I should feel very much humiliated were I to be called to
account for a thing like that. What are all those flags flying
for in town today?"
"Don't you know?"
"No, I don't."
"You don't know what day this is?"
"No, sir."
"This is Decoration Day."
"Oh, that's so."
"We lose all track of days in the show business. I'll wager you
do not even know what town we are performing in today," laughed
the clown.
"I shall have to confess that I do not."
"I thought so. Of course you know we are in the state
of Illinois?"
"Yes, I think I have heard something to that effect,"
grinned Phil.
By the time the boys had eaten their breakfast, and had strolled
over toward the tents, they found the dressing tents in place and
the performers busily engaged in unpacking their belongings,
hanging their costumes on lines stretched across the dressing
tent, and making such repairs in the costumes as were found to be
necessary, for a showman must be handy with the needle as well as
with bar and trapeze.
Phil's trunk was next to that of Diaz. The Circus Boy did not
mind this at all, but the clown appeared to feel a continual
resentment at the fact.
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