to
change it at once.

"Then I can tell Lilly that you'll come, can I?"

"Oh yes, I'll be sure to be there; an' I want you to know just how good
I think you both are to me."

"That's all right, Toby," said Mr. Treat, with a pleased expression on
his face; "an' you may bring Mr. Stubbs with you, if you want to."

"Thank you," said Toby; "I'm sure Mr. Stubbs will be just as glad to
come as I shall. But where will we be to-morrow?"

"Right here. We always stay over Sunday at the place where we show
Saturday. But I must be going, or Lilly will worry her life out of her
for fear I'm somewhere getting cold. She's awful careful of me, that
woman is. You'll be on hand to-morrow at one o'clock, won't you?"

"Indeed I will," said Toby, emphatically, "an' I'll bring Mr. Stubbs
with me too."

With a friendly nod of the head, the skeleton hurried away to reassure
his wife that he was safe and well; and before he had hardly disappeared
within the tent Toby had another caller, who was none other than his
friend Old Ben, the driver.

"Well, my boy," shouted Ben, in his cheery, hearty tones, "I haven't
seen you since you left the wagon so sudden last night. Did you get
shook up much?"

"Oh no," replied Toby: "you see I hain't very big; an' then I struck in
the mud; so I got off pretty easy."

"That's a fact; an' you can thank your lucky stars for it, too, for I've
seen grown-up men get pitched off a wagon in that way an' break their
necks doin' it. But has Job told you where you was going to sleep
to-night? You know we stay over here till to-morrow."

"I didn't think anything about that; but I s'pose I'll sleep in the
wagon, won't I?"

"You can sleep at the hotel, if you want to; but the beds will likely be
dirty; an' if you take my advice you'll crawl into some of the wagons in
the tent."

Ben then explained to him that, after his work was done that night, he
would not be expected to report for duty until the time for starting on
Sunday night, and concluded his remarks by saying,

"Now you know what your rights are, an' don't you let Job impose on you
in any way. I'll be round here after you get through work, an' we'll
bunk in somewhere together."

The arrival of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs put a stop to the conversation,
and was the signal for Toby's time of trial. It seemed to him, and with
good reason, that the chief delight these men had in life was to torment
him, for neither ever spoke a pleasant word to him; and