"Yes."
"What are your plans for the future?"
"I have no immediate plans beyond continuing in the show business. I am trying to lay up some money so I can go into business some of these days."
"What business?"
"Circus business, of course. It is the only business I know anything about, and I know very little about that, it seems to me."
"Let me tell you something, Phil. Nine-tenths of the men who have been in it nearly all their lives know no more about the circus business than you do. Many of them not so much. You are a born showman. Take my word for it, you have a very brilliant career before you. You spoke, sometime ago, about wishing to go to college."
"I should like to go."
"Under the circumstances I would advise against it, though I am a thorough believer in the value of an education. You have a good start now. Were you to go to college you would spend four years there and when you finished, you would find that the show world had been moving right along just the same. You would be out of it, so to speak. You would have been standing still so far as the circus was concerned, for four full years. Think it over and some of these days we will have another talk."
"What would you advise, Mr. Sparling?"
"I don't advise. I am simply pointing out the facts for you to consider, that's all."