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 to provide for the comfort of both beast and man, will be set up. The big top and all the side-show tents will remain on the trains until Monday morning. So it happened that Freckles had many a delightful Sunday after the long week's work, for Mr. Williams kindly allowed him to ride Dapples about the country on these days. It was a good advertisement for the circus, and it kept both boy and horse in fine condition.

After the week's strenuous work, the circus people were glad enough to have Sunday come around. Some of them even put on their best clothes and went to the nearest church.

It was a restless, feverish life that they lived, and at first Freckles found it rather tiring, although he liked it immensely. But he soon got used to the excitement and to sleeping on moving trains, so that in two months it was second nature to him. It even would have seemed strange