Toby Tyler

as time for him to go into the tent to work. Then it was that Toby learned for the first time that he had two masters instead of one, and this knowledge caused him no l

, he wanted to stop for a moment and speak with the old monkey who he thought had taken such an interest in him. But when he reached the cage in w

toward him. Toby fancied that the monkey looked at him in the most friendly way, and then he was Certain that he winked one eye. Toby felt that there was no mistake about that wink, and it seemed

cry aloud the description of that which he offered. The partner of Mr. Lord, who had charge of the stand inside the tent, showed himself to be neither better nor worse than Mr. Lord himself. When

ce they stuck in his throat, and he found it next to impossible to utter a sound above a whisper. It seemed to

asters was quite as bad as the other. This one-and he knew that his name was Jacobs, for he heard someone call him so-very kindly told hi

Mr. Jacobs's angry command; but this time he did manage to cry out, in a v

the noise he made-he met with very good luck, and sold every glass of the mixture

lley of curses; and the reason for it was that he had taken in payment for two of the glasses a lead ten cent piece. Mr. Jacobs, after scolding poor little Toby to his heart's content, vowed that the amount

n't know anything about money; I never had more 'n a cent at

again; an' it won't be well for you if

t and persuade him to give him good money in its stead. He remembered very plainly where he had sold each glass of lemonade, and he retraced his steps, glancing at each face carefully as he passed. At last he was confident that h

ircus, and who did not seem at all disposed to pay any heed to To

ly. "How can you expect me to see the

Toby, earnestly, "if you giv

and the little fellow began to think that perhaps he w

fast and if Toby did not succeed in getting good money for the bad, h

, and he was fearing that he should not succeed-"won't you please give me the

ir, while several in the immediate vicinity gave vent to their indignation that

but were evidently taking sides with the boy against him; and knowing well that he had given the counterfeit money, he took another coin from his pocke

takin' it back. I didn't want to tell you before, 'cause you'd thought I was beggin'; but if you hadn't given me

sat near that he not only disposed of his entire stock then and there, but received from one gentleman twenty-five cents for himself. He was both proud a

business had no words of encouragement fo

owled out, sulkily; "an' if you get caught in

hat there was but one thing to do, and that was to work just as hard as possible, trusting to some good fo

the excellence of his goods; and even this worked to his disadvantage. Mr. Jacobs was keen enough to see why his little clerk sold so many goods, and each time that h

iven him for himself by some of the kind hearted in the audience, and he kept his hand almost constantly up

ted toward the other portion of the store-that watched over by Mr. Lord. Not a person save the watchman was in the tent, and as To

m home, and Toby, uttering an exclamation of delight,

r, took one of the fingers in his paw, an

Toby, as if making an apology; "but, you see, there were so many around he

ce into such a funny little grimace that Toby w

orry I run away. I used to think that Uncle Dan'l was bad enough; but he was just a perfect good Samarathon to what Mr. Lord an' Mr. Jacobs are; an' when Mr. Lord looks at me with that crooked eye

od up on his hind feet and reached out his paw to the boy, who seem

when I passed you this noon. Look here"-and Toby took the money from his pocket which had been given him-"I got all that this afternoon, an' I'll try an' sti

rted toward the top of the cage, chattering and screaming, joining the

you mustn't go to telling everybody about it, or M

considerably relieved by his silence, said, as he started toward the door, "That's right-mum's

rything which he had said had been understood by the an