"Pshaw!I'd sure make a hit in New York with the mule.""Time enough for that later.You and I will yet perform in Madison Square Garden.Just put that down on your route card, Teddy Tucker.""Humph!If we don't break our necks before that!Where did yousay we were--"
"After leaving New Jersey, we are to play through New York State, taking in the big as well as the small towns, and from Buffalo heading straight west.Mr.Sparling writes that we are going across the continent.""What?"
"Says he's going to make the Sparling Shows known from the Atlantic to the Pacific--""Across the continent!" exclaimed Teddy unbelievingly."No; you're fooling.""Yes; clear to the Pacific Coast.We're going to San Francisco, too.What do you think of that, Teddy?""Great! Wow! Whoop!" howled the boy, hurling his remaining Indian Club far up among the rafters of the gymnasium, whence it came clattering down, both lads laughing gleefully.
"We're going to see the country this time, and we shan't have to sleep out in an open canvas wagon, either.""Where shall we sleep?" "Probably in a car.""It won't be half so much fun," objected Teddy.
"I imagine the life will be different.Perhaps we shall not have so much fun, but we'll have the satisfaction of knowing that we are part of a real show.It will mean a lot to us to be with an organization like that.It will give us a better standing in the profession, and possibly by another season we may be able to get with one of the really big ones.Next spring, if we have good luck, we shall have finished with our school here.If they'll have us, we'll try to join out with one of them.In the meantime we must work hard, Teddy, so we shall be in fine shape when we join out two weeks from today.Come on; I'll wrestle you a few falls.""Done," exclaimed Teddy.