"
"Why not?"
"'Cause that wouldn't be right for a boy to let a girl littler than
himself help him: I'll wait till I get money enough of my own, an'
then I'll go."
"But I want you to take my money, too; I want you to have it."
"No, I can't take it," said Toby, shaking his head resolutely as
he put the golden temptation from him; and then, as a happy thought
occurred to him, he said, quickly: "I tell you what to do with your
dollars: you keep them till you grow up to be a woman, an' when I'm
a man I'll come, an' then we'll buy a circus of our own. I think
perhaps I'd like to be with a circus if I owned one myself. We'll
have lots of money then, an' can do just what we want to."
This idea seemed to please the little girl, and the two began to
lay all sorts of plans for that time when they should be man and
woman, have lots of money, and be able to do just what they wanted
to.
They had been sitting on the edge of the newly made ring while
they were talking, and before they had half finished making plans
for the future one of the attendants came in to put things to order,
and they were obliged to leave their seats, she going to the hotel
to get ready for the afternoon's performance, and Toby to try to
do such work as Mr. Job had laid out for him.
Just ten weeks from the time Toby had first joined the circus Mr.
Castle informed him and Ella that they were to appear in public
on the following day.
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