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RECKLES soon discovered in his new life that, although they did the same things each day, yet no two days were alike. Each morning in the early dawn, if they were lucky, they rolled into a new town. They unloaded the three sections in the same manner, yet the task always varied. Sometimes the circus lot was near by, but often it was quite distant from the railway. Sometimes it was pleasant, and sometimes it was rainy. Freckles soon learned that a long rainy spell is the circus man's worst bugbear, and that the rain gets on the nerves of the performers as almost no other calamity.

Each day they pitched the tented circus town upon the lot and made ready for the