Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

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whistle broke the morning stiffness. This
time he awoke, jumped out of bed and stumbled
to the window
Ham Carter looked up at him from below.
Hurry up. you loafer," he whispered loudly
cor we'll never make that milk truck into Da-
vision. It's o'clock now and the circus I'M
loads at S."
90 X" mumbled Bill with yawn. "I'll be
down in two minutes. Must've oversight"
"You certainly picked fine day for It'll" said
Ham in disgust. "A circus comes to Daviston
once in a coon'S age and you take that day to
catch up your sleep!'
Bill didn't answer. He pulling on his
clothes. Presently he slipped from the house
and the two set of down the lane.
Bill and Ham lived on adjoining farms about
Il miles from the City of Daviston and hoped
to catch ride there on milk truck belonging
to one of the neighboring farmers. Posters
had been screaming in flaming colors for weeks
that on this particular day the Smiley Super
Circus would present amazing array OF
ferocious wild beasts and daring acrobats in
Daviston. Hence the early morning trek.
Otherwise 1t would have taken nothing short
Of an earthquake to rout the boys out of bed.
JUST before they reached the main highway
- Bill stopped still in his tracks
"Look!" he exclaimed, pointing far to
the left. 1.-THE milk truck has just 1eft!"
Their hopes of catching a ride disappeared
with it.
Gosh! whatn we do now?" They could
hear the noise of the truck growing fainter as
it moved out of sight.
Lets cut across the Grange farm and the
railroad tracks and meet the truck at Miller's.
II always takes about Is minutes there to load
the milk and if we hurry we can make it,"
Ham and Bill set off at rapid pace, climb
ing over fences in double-quick time and rae
ing over the rolling pasture land. They had to
cross small wood and after that the railroad
track When they emerged from the wood
they heard the long, slow rumblings of freight
train and before they could get over the tracks
the engine, spouting black smoke, pulled in
front of them, with a long line of cars dwin-
ding in the distance behind it.
Ham! It's the circus train!" The boys al
most stopped breathing in their excitement.
They read the name The Smiley Super Cir
GUS" painted on each car in vivid red and
yellow, decorated with gilt scrolls Far down
the line they saw string of fat cars carrying
the animal cages, and beyond that the per-
formers coaches.
THE engines puffs became more and more
feeble and finally stopped altogether The
train came to a standstill.
'Howdy, boys!' They were startled by a
cheerful, rumbling voice. middle aged man
with heavy black mustache looked down at
them cheerfully from the car platform, where
he was slouched against the door, splitting to-
bacco juice expertly in the middle of the other
roadbed.
Hello" they managed to utter.
What are you two scamps doing out SO early
in the morning? Up to some mischief I'll bet!"
We've were on our way to Daviston to
see the circus" explained Ham, "and we knew
that lots of times you can get free passes II
you're there to help unload and run errands
So we wanted to catch the milk truck ill., but
we got up too Late" ,-.,.t.. 81 20. ....~.s