“What are you laughing at?” muttered Diamond.
“The whole business,” answered Frank. “By Jove! this is a circus! Aren’t you glad you came?”
“Don’t know that I am,” came sulkily from Jack.
“Well, I am,” declared Merry. “Wouldn’t have missed this for anything. I have seen all kinds of dances, but I think this takes the first prize.”
“Cattle!” growled Diamond.
Immediately Frank grew sober.
“I will guarantee there are brave men and true here,” he said, seriously. “Their ways are rough, but their hearts are all right.”
“Only cattle could enjoy anything like this,” declared Jack, stiffly.
“You are altogether too narrow, my boy. Look at the face of that girl with the big red-shirted fellow. Isn’t she pretty? By Jove! Dress her in fine clothes, possibly give her a few lessons in refinement, and she would put to blush some of your city belles. Why, her face is really handsome!”